POLITICAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9577, 31 July 1923, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

THE CONVIVIAL CITIZEN. AND THIS SPINSTER. J.P. A H [TMOROUS\ FORECAST Refusing to take the dangerous pos--1 sibilities of women Justices oi the Pence seriously, the lion. \Y. H. 'Triggs provided a humorous interlude in the ..Legislative Council. .‘‘Lot us suppose,” be said, “tly.t a, law-abiding ..but genial citizen has dined not wisely, but too well, and on his way home meets, not the rotund and jovial policeman of tradi- / tion, but the. stern and unyielding j guardian of the law, and commences ■ n little persiflage of the after-dinner | kind. Pie might find himself in the ! Felice Com t' called upon to answer a charge? of drunkenness. What would ; be the consternation of such a worthy i citizen if ho bad to appear before a lady of austere mien in the morning i One could imagine his feeling of hori ror while submitting to the grim, stern scrutiny of the lady on the .bench. He would fee! the futility ol placing tho facts before her. Yet nothing very terrible could happen to the worthy*'citizen, and if his uncomfortable exncrience. was such that he. resolved never to do it again, surely tho best justice is that which is a. tie torrent T”

i ALP, GETS “ENCORE.” "THANKS: I DESERVE IT.' 5 ’’lf "there was loss law and more, work,” declared Air J. R. Corrigan ; (Patca), in the course of the lengthy discussion on the Noxious Weeds Amendment Bill, “there would be fewer noxious weeds.” (Loud laughter), y, Mr A. J. Murdocu (A.larsden): You j have got an encore. (Laughter). Air. Corrigan: 1 deserve it. (Laugh- ' ter.)