WASTE OF TIME

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7850, 12 July 1911, Page 5

WASTE OF TIME

(To the Editor “N.Z, Times.”) Sir, —Among the principal works of an august assemblage in a certain city in •the Dominion was an attempt at the fruition of a design to illustrate in practice the name of one of the most famous of the lato lamented Charles Dickens's characters (se« the Pickwick Papers and the story of The Little Green Gate). A servant of this assemblage, of a standing of the hotter part of half a oentury, was by this design to bo displaced for no lault of his own. For whose fault was not made known, nor for whoso emolument either. But apparently the august assemblage had been reading its Dickens lately —there is hardly heritor reading—and it smelt the aforesaid character in the proposal, its argument further apparently Doing that “personae gratae” are quite good enough without the introduction of “personae graticres.” The only purpose of this note is to point the moral that the holding of innumerable ecu noil's, oecumenical and otherwise, the promulgation of several tables of conduct —onc'a duty to one’s neighbour included—and the edition of , a tenth commandment, not 10 mention sixteen hundred years of frock coats, white tics, and shovel hats, let alone gal—but. hang it, no! irreverence must stop somewhere —have so littlo operated to prevent, let ns say, waste of time in august assemblages as to permit bringing forward such a proposal.—-! am, etc-, F.V.W. July 11th.