PEDESTRIANISM

NZ Truth, Issue 98, 4 May 1907, Page 3

PEDESTRIANISM

(By Centre.)

> Maryatt, the Dunedin "boomster," i was again on the job when he landed here from Sydney on Wed- • nesduy, and grandmother's editorial column contained some "slush" concerning the doings of the vamping - southerner who took all sorts of fine ■ care to keep away from the Easter • , Conference m Christchurch, under the •■ flimsy pretext that the public aer- ■ vice staff, with which he is associated,, was short-handed, owing to an epidemic of illness. There were others besides Maryatt who were sorry at las non-appearance. Maryatt : would have got a pill or two that would have settled his, hash for a Ion;; time to come, •niiii liiilious cove who writes under the name of "Spike" m the Jjua.dia "Stai" has been indulging again m -some lovely romancing, when he says tli.it tlva Otago delegates were assured by the Wellingtoa representatives at thq Easter Conference- that the statements made to the effect; that the southern'body's letter enquiring, as to what action, etc., the local association was liely to adopt at the conference, was a cheeky and impertinent one, was not an accordance with facts. This writer; again repeats m the most emphatic manner that an utterance, by oi;e of the members "that the letter was a cheeky and impertinent one" was gireeted. with a (horus of "hear, hears" tight round ■ the room. If Jack. Pollock and secretary Davicg yeally went so far as to assyip the Otago delegates that the incident reported was an incorrect version of the actual proceeding s then all I have tQ say is that jtlie pair would ha,ye to tare hipfa rank with Ananias, oi Biblical f-ime. But I eamipA 'credit 1 hit either- one of them' "would be guilty of such misconception. As -to the veiled reference to the third member of the Wellington' delegation m which he is accused of exhibiting hostile feeling to Otago, it speaks well for the attitude he took up m 'regard It* tUe machinations of the Otago- ■, Southland mob that he was able to spoit Us little- ga.n.i2.s. Paape and his sycophantic crew would haA r e givea much For this particular member of the local delegation to, have been iut of the way.. He was a thorn a\d a very prickly cne, too, m their sile all through tho conference. In c«i:lusion I have to make it tiuite ciar to "Spike," whose point of/ eftctiveness appears to have, be^'n 'Glinted to wselessness io yeeen> en- '