TOPICAL VERSE.
BANK OFFICERS’ CONCERT. SPEAKER SPRINGS SURPRISE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. It Is not often these prosaic days that a speaker at a public gathering elects to make his address in verse but this was the surprise which .Mr 11. F. von Haast sprang on the New Zealand Bank Officers’ Guild at the annual smoke concert. Proposing the toast of the visitors he quoted a poem of a hundred lines and after referring to various Labour Ministers and their legislation he mentioned the formation of the Bank Clerks’ Union and continued: — ** —and should a banker prove a brute There’ll be 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 Aruf venture on a sit-down strike.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 25 June 1937, Page 7
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155TOPICAL VERSE. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 25 June 1937, Page 7
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