AN APPRECIATION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 211, 20 August 1927, Page 9

AN APPRECIATION.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Now that the circumlocutory mummery of the Hastings Borough Council resulting in what was obvi ously the design from the beginning, has come to an end, and Inspector Yates has been relegated to the co.d shades 'of unemployment, I would like, as a motorist amenable to he borough by-laws, to record my ap preciation of that gentleman’s invariable courtesy and reasonableness to those coming beneath his tutelage. Here we had a gentleman eminently fitted for his position, yet withal, quite innocent of that bluster and bounce, and the faculty for advertising himself, which in this age of distorted values and political chicanery, seem to carry less worthy men much further.

1 believe that, if the nubile of Hastings were conversant with the genesis of the movement which has brought about his supersession, as also the resignation of his predecessor in office, its ideas of fair play and justice would receive an unpleasant jolt. This, notwithstanding the opinions of a lickspittle press to the contrary. 1 would like to know what direct connection there is between his discard and his courageous refusal to give certain evidence in a court case some time ago. When I think of the term “British fairplay” and see certain things nowadays, I positively puke—Yours, etc..