ADDRESS IN VERSE
SPEAKER SPRINGS A SURPRISE [Pa* United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 24, It is not often in these prosaic days that a speaker at a public gathering elects to make his address in verse, but this was the surprise which Mr H. F. von Haast sprang on the New Zealand Bank Officers’ Guild at its annual smoke concert in proposing the toast of tho visitors. The poem is one of 100 lines, and, after referring to various Labour Ministers and their legislation, mentions the formation of a bank clerks’ union, and continues: And should a banker prove a brute. There’ll bo industrial dispute. If he persists in his vexation You first will seek conciliation. If with your terms he won’t comply, Then arbitration you will try, And bankers who will not give way Will have to face O’Regan J. But p’r’aps a short cut you may like, And venture on a sit-down strike.
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Evening Star, Issue 22683, 24 June 1937, Page 8
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155ADDRESS IN VERSE Evening Star, Issue 22683, 24 June 1937, Page 8
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