Mr. A. P. Herbert’s Wit

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18313, 3 February 1934, Page 9

Mr. A. P. Herbert’s Wit

TN “Still More Misleading Cases/' A Mr. A. I'. Herbert continues vyhat to later generations of bis readers will probably be known as the Haddock saga. Albert Haddock is the man in the street with a perpetual grudge against those institutions which deprive, him of his liberty while scrupulously preserving their own. In a rash moment the Speaker of the House of Commons summons him to the Bar of the House to apologise. Content with no perfunctory excuses he wearies the House, which is counted oilt so often that the Liberties of the People (Restoration) Act is dually placed on the Statute Book. Mr. Herbert manages to tilt against most of those English institutions such as coroners , and divorce laws which have failed to secure;his sympathy, and he has more than a kind word to say for those of His Majesty ’s Judges who are paid a salary which, compared to that of a variety artist, is insignificant. The genuine zeal of the reformer is concealed beneath such excellent fooling as “Corrupt Practices” and “The Act of Cod.”