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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

i. UUuhLUi The cost of the recent by-t‘le<;tion iit Christchurch at which Councillor R. D. Martin was elected, was £‘3ls os 7d. When this fact was reorted to the City Council, Councillor Martin asked whether ex-Coiincillor .Aga,r having offered to pay half the cost of a Mayoral by-election if the Mayor resigned would contribute the excuses of the by-election occasioned by his resignation. “No, the winner pays,” said a councillor. In the course of his speech at the annual dinner of the combined bakers and pastry cooks on .Saturday evening, Mr (i. Mitchell, M.P., said that at Hnpaume, he had 80 Maoris in his coim maud and there was a battalion or more of Americans in the line close to The Americans could not understand the New Zealand mahner of treating the .Maoris, whom they spoke of as coons, The Maoris or rather some of them were in an estaminet having a drink and some of the American soldiers were there. They told the Maoris not to come drinking there next day, as that was “Independence Day.” ‘‘What day’s that?” asked one of the Maoris. “That is the day we drove the Rritish into the sea,” responded the American. “That so,” remarked the ■Maori. “That’s the day the Maori throw the ’Merican out of the window.”