THAT SILENT POLICEMAN

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6603, 23 May 1925, Page 4

THAT SILENT POLICEMAN

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —That cool, cast-iron Silent Policeman is getting on the nerves of some people, including myself. “Safety’s Sake” says that “Our only Silent ~ Policeman stands shivering all day, naked and unashamed, at the intersection of Kenrick and Whitaker streets,” and asks if it is a fair thing for “Man in the Street” to jeer at our one and only naked policeman. It appears to me that any married man with a family is quite justified in making a fuss about it and wonder how it is that some fully clothed real policeman has not ax-rested his silent cobber long ago for indecent behaviour. I had an experience with that naked policeman the other night. I bumped into him and knocked him down. I jumped out of my car and picked him up and shook hands with him. It was then I noticed he had come on duty and forgotten to put on his pyjamas. I admit jeering at him some and asked the way to the pub. He was knocked speechless expecting I was going to ask him to have a spot, and just pointed teethe left. I tried to carry out his' 0 instructions, and it seems to me I kept turning to the left around that policeman till morning, or he was turning round me, I forget which, when a fully dressed dinkurn policeman came along and would not remain silent. I merely said, good morning, constable, and I turned to the left—and left, for safety’s sake.—l am, etc., TWAIN MARK.