THOSE GERMAN GLOVES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 12

THOSE GERMAN GLOVES

ARMISTICE DAY MOCKERY REPORT AND DENIAL (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. A statement in a Christchurch newspaper, in which J. L. Dohcrty, a former traffic inspector in the employ of the Auckland City Council, was reported to have stated that he resigned his position because he would not tolerate wearing German-made gloves on point duty on Armistice Dav was the subject of an enquirv by "the Mayor, Mr. G. G. Baildon. Mr. Doherty was reported to have said that he considered it a mockery to be forced to wear German gloves while. observing the two minutes' silence in memory of those who gave their live:? at the war.

"It was only natural," the report continued, "that I should complain at. the outset, but what was the use 1 ? There were other returned men who complained, but it did no good. Then came Armistice Day with its memories, and I was asked to stand at. an intersection of two of Auckland's principal streets and observe two minutes' silence. I was asked to stand there with those memories, and those, German gloves. It was asking too much of me. I refused, I tore the gloves from my hand. ~lt was a mockery in my eyes. There was only one course open to me—to resign—and I have resigned."

When the truth of these statements was investigated by the Mayor, Mr. Doherty was present. In a signed statement, he denied having given such reasons for retiring from the employ of, the City Council, and declared that his reason for retiring was entirely different from that given in the article.