MR SEMPLE’S AVERSIONS

Kaikoura Star, Volume LVI, Issue 94, 30 November 1936, Page 3

MR SEMPLE’S AVERSIONS

PF OPT .F. HE DOES NOT LIKE "There are two types of people I will not stand for —one is the Stock Exchange gambler who speculates in the necessities of life, anti the other is the street-corner spittoon philosopher who always criticises but never does anything constructive himself,” remarked the Minister for Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, in an address to railway workers at Bartletts camp (reports a Gisborne correspondent). "The man who stands on a street corner and criticises others for either going too slow or too fast, for doing this wrong and trailing to do that at all, ought to be given the opportunity of trying his own hand at directing the

alfairs of the country. There would be no danger of anything happening, because he would not get as far as doing anything. Confronted with the work that falls to the lot of 'a Cabinet member, and with the responsibility of ycally helping to run the country, he would fizzle out like a Seidlitz. powder in a puddle of water.”