ADDRESS IN VERSE
LAWYER SPRINGS A SURPRISE By Telecranh— ress Association WELLINGTON, June 24. It is not often in these prosaic days that a speaker at a public gathering elects to make his address in verse, but this was a surprise which, Mr H. F. von Haast sprang on the New Zealand Bank Officers’ Guild, at the annual smoke concert, in proposing the toast of the visitors. The poem is one of 100 lines, and after referring to various Labour Ministers, and their legislation, he mentions the formation of the Bank Clerks’ Union, and continues: ‘‘And should a banker prove a brute, There'll be an industrial dispute; \ If he persists in his vexation, You first will seek conciliation. If with your terms he won’t comply. Then arbitration you will try. And bankers who will not give way, Will have to face O’Regan J. But p'r’aps a short cut you may like, And venture on a sit-down strike.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20763, 25 June 1937, Page 7
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157ADDRESS IN VERSE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20763, 25 June 1937, Page 7
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