THE “HARD CASES”
“MUST SEE THEM THROUGH.” • Feeling reference to the valour of our men at the front, and to the needs of those broken in the war, was made by the Hon. J. G. Coates (Minister for Public Works and Postmaster-General) on Saturday morning in the course of his speech at the birthday gathering in honour of Sir James Carroll. “Wo have some very hard cases, no doubt,” he said, “but we must 'see them through. We must remember that the hard case .with one wing, the man who sticks folk up in the street, tho restaurants, anywhere, was a very good man out at the front, ;fnd probably stuck up. for quite a number of people there without * thinking about it at all. I don’t eay that the good man was not as good as the hard case, but that hard case was a very good man to rely upon out there. It is no use moralising with that type of man; ire have to stand by him, he iw still a responsibility. And one thing that we have, to guard against ia allowing that man to hawk his wares neon the sti’eets. It is not an easy question, but, as I have said, wo must ■a e bin’!, through.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10985, 22 August 1921, Page 6
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