CIVIL ETIQUETTE.
( To the Editor.)
Sin. —The leader in this mornings “ Argus ”is very amusing. Why was not the Hon. J. Kerr asked to read the Proclamation ? \ c Gods and little fishes !!! The Town Council took the only dignified and proper course on the occasion. The Chief Magistrate was away and by canvassing a meeting as to who shall he his deputy, it was carried that Air Joseph Petrie should do the honor on the occasion. Mr Lord who is only nominally Town Clerk had no more right to assume the position than the Town Bell ringer. It is a great pity that these stupid affairs about “"precedence ” at public functions were relegated to the past and not have such unsensely affairs as the priests’ and parsons’ in Australia squabble for possession of the best teat. Amongst a lot of young pigs one has to suck a hind teat, and sometimes there is a row in this style,
The “Argus” would have been content if the Hon. J. Kerr had been asked to do the honors. I am, etc.,
Edward vii Greymouth, 29th January, 1901.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 January 1901, Page 3
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185CIVIL ETIQUETTE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 January 1901, Page 3
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