A democratic member of the Wellington Harb/>r Board at a recent meeting took exception to the use of the contraction "Esq" as it appeared on the minutes after the name of a certain gentleman. "We don't want to go m for handles of that sort," he declared. "I move that it be struck out." The "Esq." was deleted when it was discovered that m the same minutes another man was designated plain "Mr."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12754, 4 May 1912, Page 5
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