SHE MOVED HIM ON!

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 May 1919, Page 3

SHE MOVED HIM ON!

You ought to have seen the crowd in Queen Street in front of the Herald Offic,e on the evening of polling-day^ It stretched from pavement to pavement. Of course the attraction was the figures relating to the voting on the question " wet or dry ?" It was almost impossible for anyone to pass through that dense crowd but a middle-aged woman found a way. She just jabb.ed a hatpin into the «houldev »f the man in front of her, an<L he moved on immediately, if/^not sooner. Just as the pen id mightier titan the sword, scf* the hat-pin ! < is mightier tha,n the tongue —whpn skilfully applied to any fleshy part of the anatrmy. The man to whom it was applied in this case told the owner of the hatpin what he thought of her in simple but forcible language, and she was subsequently arrested, and brought before a Magistrate who refused to credit h«r statemeat that the " assault", was accidental, and fined her £5 and costs. She must hay« felt quite sorry she had not remained at home on the evening cf polling day, and contented herself with reading the returns in the paper.