MR AMERY’S VISIT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20289, 23 December 1927, Page 10

MR AMERY’S VISIT.

A MESSAGE OF APPRECIATION. iPep ('kited Press Association.’ WELLINGTON, December 22. T' ? Prime Minister (Mr J. G. Coates) has received the following radio message from Mr L. S. Amery, who is now on the Aoramri en route from Auckland to Fiji:- “ I cannot leav e New Zealand without expressing to you and your colleagues the warmest thanks for all your generous and kind hospitality to myself, Mrs Amery, and staff. Our stay in the Dominion has been a tim e of great enjoyment and happiness, and I know also that it will bo of the greatest value to me in my future work. Best wishes to you and the Dominion in the coming year.” Mr Coates has sent an appropriate reply.

“GIVIS” AND “PUSSYFOOT.” TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Recently, quoting "Civis's ” earnest wish that the word “Pussyfoot,” “odious and ridiculous ” in his sight, might bo dropped, and pointing out the pious humbug of the wish in view' of his using t.ho word no fewer than seven times in two short notes in a subsequent column, I suggested that some little concession was due to the intelligence of his readers. Evidently “Givis” does not think so, for in hist week's notes he calmly ignores the obvious point of the. letter —the hypocrisy of his pretence that he would like to drop the word and all it connotes, when even the feeblest into,lect recognises the avidity wilh which he grasps at any and every opportunity to drag in a reference to his pot theme. In further concession to (ho intelligence of the reader, he produced his much overworked reference to the velvet paw and the hidden claw ! Next week no doubt another of his chestnuts about “ the weary pund o’ tow ” will be dragged out. “ C’ivis ” delights to sneer at the believer in no-liocnse as a “ fanatic.” If the beam in his own eye were not so large he would recognise what his readers have known for years—that as a fanatic in the opposing of the no-lieense movement he ■ mid cove point' and a heating to the fieriest no-license zealot. It is this blind fanatici-rn which prevents him from realising that no writer —not even a genius --can be other than stale on a subject that hS flogs ad nauseam week in and out for years and Tears. —I am, etc., X. Dunedin, December 22.