Cab and Express Men.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 257, 7 November 1901, Page 3

Cab and Express Men.

(To the Editor of Times.)

Sin, —If your correspondent "Progress" happens to be conversant with the past he would hardly have written as he did in your issue of yesterday. For. if Dr Dodds is to be credited, he asked, ” Let thy droppings fall on me.’' This is, of course, a blank cartridge, but possessing as much powder at the back as would force a bullet. " Progress " has discovered a knowledge (and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing i that the sitting of broad- i shouldered cab-drivers, etc., is an inter- j ference with the display of goods in cer- I tain windows, whilst their vigorous j expectoration on the footpath might result ] in a flood. This is a peculiar senteuce — I “ It is a common practice for the drivers I to congregate ana perch themselves on , any convenient window ledge, and some i being fairly broad in the beam give a poor chance to those desirous of inspecting the wares within.' 1 Whether this may be the wares within a window ledge, or having some delicate allusion to the interior [ economy of cabmen or cardrivers, is obscured. However, let this pass. “ Pro- ! gross" can safely be defied as to finding I in the whole community a more steady, i industrious, and law-abiding class than I the eabdrivers. carriers, etc., in the community than they themselves are, and to show why they, to the great disadvantage of the general public, should be relegated to some back street or out-of -the-way place.—We are, etc., Those Interested.