THEY SAY:—

Hutt Valley Independent, Volume V, Issue 212, 6 February 1915, Page 4

THEY SAY:—

That though- some Valley fellows sascessfully dodge matrimonial entailments at el*t 'stream, they are confronted with wire entanglements at the gate. Nothing to do with Kiltie, * • « • That some months ago Mc Curdy announced in the Independent. that the current year's rates had not been legally levie d and at the January meeting he refused t© move that the clerk be authorised to sue, as he intended, to contest the validity of the rate demands in court. The people have to thank the present chairman and clerk for half-a-dozen or more idregularijbies in connection with the rates this year. « * * # That Mac praised roadman Greenwood and his men for the skilful way in which they removed the trees opposite Shaw's —pat? him on the back when he does things well, and pats him lower down when he does the opposite. That George taban is off his onion. Hardly as bad as that yet. Always understood him to be a whale on onions—especially raw ones. People who are in his comrany know it. One perhaps migH be tempted to dub him a farce of a man, while others would use a shorter word i , t « « • That the J. S. Barton who was appointed to the management committee of the recently formed Wellington Branch of the Workers Eduea%n Association is the same J.S.B. who carried a baton during the strike. Well, well ( * * • • That whenever a certain person in the Wairarapa runs into print about shifting the capital of N.Z. or the Wairarapa Railway nearer his property, it is Mr. "Coleman" Phillips. But when some poor devil is pushed into bankruptcy we read that Mr. "C." Phillips was. the pusher. i * » i That another of Botcher Jim's 4x4 totara lamp-posts has been broken off and consequently £5 of the ratepayers money gone to pot. Some day the ratepayers will realise that the appointment of an ex-sawmill-hand as roadman was irregular and the cut-and-dried job Of Wowser members of the bowling club, and that he relies on the bowlingclub members bf tjie board to keep him in * ' 11! ,'• f |