REAL LADIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143770, 19 April 1912, Page 4

REAL LADIES.

REPLY TO HATPIN INSPECTOR. The hatpin crusade has not yet started in earnest, although the officers of the City Council have already got busy by issuing warnings to women in the streets (says the Sydney Sun). The Easter holidays have been responsible for the delay in enforcing the hatpin regulations. With the city crowded with country people it was thought undesirable to start the crusade seriously, because of tho danger of making examples of slranpers who were not aware of the necessity to have the pins protected. * •

The humorous side of tho business, however, has already hem ticught home to the City “JounnEs off ee s. An inspector was scrolling up King Street last week a .ah eyes fixed on the feminine headgear, when he caught sight of two ‘‘ladies,” real “ladies,” in fact, who were wearing hatpins, the points of which were protruding almost half a foot.

Each was displaying a goodly amount of lace and silk, and was elegantly dressed, and the inspector hesitated about speaking to them. But the call of duty was too strong for him. and accosting the women, he informed them of the regulation, and that they were infringing it. . “Who the hell ore you?” one of the “ladies” demanded.* The inspector was flabbergasted. He lost his power of speech, and for several seconds was at a loss what to do. Then lie acquainted them of his authority to address them. “Well, you can go to hell,’,’ he was told. They threw their heads into the air, and walked away. The inspector was so dumbfounded that he did not follow or take any action against them.