CITIZEN GODBER.

NZ Truth, Issue 114, 24 August 1907, Page 5

CITIZEN GODBER.

WELLINGTON'S CHAMPION • MEAN MAN. Sweating at the "Star's" Ball. A Matter fer the Union. ' Our worthy fellow-townsman, Citizen Godber, -who, it is alleged, was beaten for Parliament because some enemy called him "pie" and made people lau>h ut him and refuse to take him seriously, seems to be " one of that class of individuals to whom Arbitration and Conciliation Courts, the payment of a living, wage, the treatment of servants like human beings, are various kinds of nightmares, and if there is any possibility, of diddling the worker of the due fixed for him by Law, Citizen Godber, the pastry puff City Councillor, can be depended on to take advantage of any loop-hole. Of course, the Arbitration Court fined him not so very, long ago for a breach of the award, and it outfit to be that a fine by am Arbitration Court should, be held a slur on a man's character just as muoh as a fine m a Police Court will be burled at a man any time m the hereafter. Personally, this paper believes the custard puff and afternoon tea chap is a 'genial|. welL-me&n-ing little cuss who "takes himself too serious. Other people do not, and will not, and only laugh a SILLY, SICKLY KIND OP LAUGH too, when Citizen Godber 's name is mentioned m connection with municipal matters. His better hall is said to manage the bun' factory for ' him. Godber doesn't seem capable of managing anything except the citizens' affairs, and that no doubt is why he is elected regularly. Anyhow, the pastry man reaps the profit of the puff affair m Cuba-street. He caters for lots of functions, and no doubt because he is a councillor with a Town Hall pu'l that all these things are as they. arc. Now, t'other evening tin Citizen was catercjc for the Star Boating Club's Ball at the Tow,n Hall, and the "Citizen's" culinary staff were m attendance to see that the "Stars" got all they wanted m the way of delicacies and* that nobody put jellies m their pockets or made leasts of themselves, or stole the silver, or anything that is not supposed to be done by the Elite. The "Stars" ate well and danc&d merrily, and thoroughly enjoyed themselves, but they thought not, of course, of the slaves that were doing the ' "-ing-up. Nobody thought of them except Citizen Godber, and how he thought of one as ahout to be related, and if there is any Union concerned it mi/Jit just, as well see if the ' "Citizen" cannot te punished once again by the Arbitration Court. From eight m the evening till nffeer three o'clock the next morninr: tbose slavrs slushed arid slished thair dtv-ing-up towels about,, and let '> h.°re be recorded m blazing type lhat lU° "Citizen" thoucrht so ' much ©f th<>. services of one individual, a sort of soft, if not • HALF-WITTED, SCULLION, that he gave him one whole bob as overtime, ani it is not recorded whether the "Citizen" told him not to make a beast of himself • either! x Ax\yhow, the "mug," during the evening, met with an accident, . and some crockery ware was smashed, and this may account for Godber's low-down meanness. Anyhow, it was an accidsnt, and it could not possibly be helped. Now, it will be readily recognised that this self-same pastry puff expert Godber is a sweater of tlis worst type. Nobody, we have said, takes him seriously. His name provokes mirth, and as a councillor is a huge joke. As a sweater, though. "Truth" blazons him forth throughout the land. He is more than a joke at that. We have heard wliispers concerning moa+~pics manufactured on tie premises, and those wkispers are not creditable to GODBER'S GORMANDISING INSTITUT T ON. At any rate, if there is a Union protecting the interests of. these scullione it oupht to have much pleasure m citing Citizen Godber., who is a bit of a humbug, and who, having his latest instance of paltry meanness made public, will shut himself up for a week and act the sore-headed; bear to everybody. Again, this week,, this champion mean men deliberately) beat an ex-employee for s. miserable day's pay, a sum of about ss, and be•Oataso the ex-employee naturally . expressed his opinion m ratfcsr forcible terms o£ the "Citizen's" general contemptible character, and, moreover, added his intention of ir.formiupi ■ "Truth on him, this dignified City, Councillor raised his foot to kick the man out of his ofiic". To kick & mftn is more than Godber dare, . and' n this instance his age prevented the sHnGint from rccsiving the , chastisement ha so rictlT deserves.