MOTORISTS ADJOURN

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 39, 15 August 1945, Page 8

MOTORISTS ADJOURN

UNABLE TO CONCENTRATE •'Really, gentlemen, 1 find it very difficult to understand your mentality. No one appreciates the significance of the news of peace more than I do, and no one rejoices more, but, surely, our job is to do' our duty," said Mr. A. Grayson, who presided at a meeting of the council of the North Island Motor Union today. Delegates were discussing remits when the shrieks of the sirens announced that Japan had surrendered. It became extremely difficult to secure the concentration of members on the business before them. Clouds of paper began to flutter past the windows. Eventually, various delegates appealed to the chairman to adjourn proceedings. "The position is that members simply cannot concentrate." said one representative. "Let us adjourn." A? the sirens wailed, the chairman commented: "The best way we can rejoice is to carry on and do our duty What is the use of going about the streets smashing things and making noises?" , . "Oh no," replied one of the delegates "we do not intend to do that We cannot concentrate. That's all." On a vote being taken, the council resolved to adjourn until 2 p.m. "You will be lucky if you see any of us back" commented one delegate, as his colleagues scrambled for the door. "I do not think that posterity, when they read the minutes of this meeting, will censure us for this." said another. "Well the circumstances are certainly extraordinary." remarked the chairman