MAKING OUR FLESH CREEP

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1929, Page 7

MAKING OUR FLESH CREEP

(Auckland Paper). Tlie Fat Pay out of “Pickwick” jumped up in tire somnolent atinosplieie of the Legislative Council last weex and tried to make members’ flesh creep. He had evidently been reading a ini-.ed and highly indigestible diet of the “National Review,” tire Puke of Northumberland, and Air Edgar Wallace, and he suggested a lurid picture of the “red fool fury of the Seine” that might spill over this fair land if Air A\ 'ilford’s proposals to relax the strictness of the Arms Act (and incidentally give his roli emeu more time for more important work) pleased everybody in the Lower House, but certain councillors, with the Communists in their mind, struck out the main operative clause That under the Amending Bill the Iran on “automatics” and revolvers remained, and there was. still a check through dealers on

sales of firearms, did not satisfy councillors. The Hon. G. J. Garland asked what the police were paid to do, and advised them, if they wanted soft jobs, to get out of the force. This might he listed as the. week’s great thought. Alost people think the police are paid at do something more useful than harrying owners of sporting guns. It only remains for Air Garland, when another unsolved crime mystery arr'ves, to ask indignantly what the police are about.