DUKE AND THE MAYOR.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5126, 16 May 1927, Page 4

DUKE AND THE MAYOR.

SEQUEL AT ELECTION. Commenting on the return of Mi Archer for the Mayoralty of Christchurch by a very big majority, “K,” writing in his column. “Obiter Dicta, in the Christchurch Press, says : “The only fly in the Red Feds’ ointment is the fact that Mr Archei owes not his election but his absurdly large majority to the Duke of York. This turns the glorious summer of their victory into a winter of discontent, or at least an autumn Q,f peevishness. For thousands of the Mayor’s votes came from people who were afraid that he would not treat the Duke, as he said he did, as a ‘cobber.’ ’‘l did not crawl to the Duke ’ he said, ‘I didn’t li.ck his boots, but I did not insult him. I treated him as a man and a cobber.’ It is pleasant to know that Mr Archer has made our democracy safe for Dukes, but to some of his friends those extra thousands of votes seem like tainted money. Mr Archer’s reference- to His Royal Highness may allow the telling of the story—it may be a chestnut—of the lady who engaged a new maid. The maid was Welsh- and her mistress at first found great difficulty in remembering her name. ‘Now, what is your name ?’ she asked during the first day; ‘I find it most difficult to remember.’ ‘Call me Ganger,’ replied the maid ; ‘all my other pals do.’ ”