Wellington Keeping the Flag Flying.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 82, 4 October 1912, Page 2

Wellington Keeping the Flag Flying.

SOCIALIST BRANCH DOINGS.

I will not attempt to chronicle all the manifold doings of Wellington comrades, content if I may show that there has been a warm endeavor to live tip to the metropolitan distinction.

On Saturday nights our sweet cosmopolitan mixture and family fe&3t fills the hall.

On Sunday mornings we sweep up the pieces and wrestle on the same floor with the fundamental theorems of that all-important science—economics. Our class has a: excellent lecturer, and is open to all visitors or bona fide students,, at 10.-30 sharp.

Sun lay afternoon, common tea; uncommonly good. Eating, after all, is the most innocent pleasure we have.

On Sunday evening speakers are unpacked from the soap-box on Dixon street corner. They serve their audience with articles Al and unchallenged; mild tablets perfumed with hope for the slave, lumps of sand-soap for rubbing the cherished rotundities of the money animals and exploiting brutea. Strong stuff, but true.

Tbo Sunday evening meetings keep going.

On Monday evenings the comrades dance.

Wednesday .of last week was a branch meeting, with a good attendance and a temperate and fruitful spirit inspired the proceedings.

On Fridays the executive cope with many cares and difficulties.

A mass meeting on Sunday week was a great success and protested against the jailings.

Men, come and be comrades; comrades, come and be men Bend yourselves to this lifting of the enslaved and heavy-laden. Manhood and womanhood can do it.

At last Thursday's leave-taking from our organiser, Ed. Hartley, we wellnigh wept. A serene and equable eoul,

a great-strong heart, a cultured, keen, yet genial man is gone from our midst. I fear he will take the open secret of the Socratic method with him across the weary waste of waters. Yet we labor in his traces. Vale atque are I