SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 126, 29 May 1944, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

We have voted for everybody whe got in, and, realising it, they will, nr doubt, remember: U) Our footpaU. wants sealing; (2) our favourite country road could do with a new oridge; <3) w© would like more shade a'. Castlecliff; (4) we want a deep-see harbour; (5) we would like thc rates low-e’-ed; (6) we want the powej shortage fixed up. Wp feel sur € tlia* ail such matters (refered to the incoming roum"!--or board—will be earned into effect, not mereh- looked ugon with favour. NOT A “(X>FPER.” In Melbourne iccently a man was fined £2 tor having called a constable a “copper, ’ which the Court ruled was grossly offensive and insulting. TITLES. R.N.S. (Wanganui East); Members of the New Z-ealand Legislative Council are always refer ed to bv the title “Honourable” and, it ;s usual. Io follow the nam? with the letters -.M.L.C." In ! ress reports the accepted practice is io use th P title “Honourable ' one?, and then, where the man’s name occurs in ihe same article, the title “Mr.” Ministers ol the Crown ale entitled tc. "Honourable.” and am usually gi\Tn their designation -such ag •‘Ministr.- of Lands.” There is r growing tendency, however, both in England and the Dominions, to dispense \.ith the title "Honourable” ;n Brest references to Ministers. In main cases this is done at the express wisw of the Ministers themselves. Mr. Churchill, tor instance, prefers plair. “Mr.’ lather than “Rt. Honourable.' Ir is the usual practice to write: “In thc House of Commons the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)”but if a personal paragraph was to be wtiUen regard'ng his activi!'. it would appear like this; ‘The Rt. Hon., Wuiston Churchill, British Pvirr.n Minister, is visiting" .... It is all a matter of style. The title Right Honourable,” as applied Io Mr. Fraser, is bestowed because he is a member of Ihe Pri.-_> Council. Th e order of ine Peerage is: Duke. Marquis, Earl, Viscount. Barton.” Obviously, those titles are used whenever thc name appears, no matte; how many times it appears in a given article, such as; “The Earl of Rarlurly,”