MUNROITIS.

NZ Truth, Issue 74, 17 November 1906, Page 4

MUNROITIS.

The Christchurch Society of Grumblers are only partially satisfied over the tiirn events have taken m connection ■ with the -management of t]ie Exhibition, writes our Christchurch. correspondent. A number of 'em 'aren't satisfied at all. For. some time the Government had been asked to "do Something," Yd they did it. It was Mimro's i'lmera), but it turned out that he wasn't, quite dead, and that' he didn't intend, to make a cadaver at all. When Sirjoe Ward first , came down from Wellington someone imae'ined ihat they -heard him grinding away at -a very -laifge axe afc the rear of Warner's ... Hotel ; but this proved to be erroneous. He paltered with the matter m a miserably vaCilJatins way, and it wasn't until a whole week had elapsed that the Government policy, about the . management of the big choW was announced. Instead of kicking 'Miihro out altogether they made the gentleman manager, and decided that each Cabinet Minister should take it turn about to stop m Chrifitchurch and run the show— a shift system, such as is followed at a coal mine, , or a brewery. So, from the position of Chief Executive Commissioner, -Munro has taken the menial job of- manager, and now puts on his top hat m a somewhat depressed frame of mind, for some of his dignity .has gone and to the general public he isn't the cock of the walk he used to was. Munro isn't n, very light substance that fcah be blown anywhere, otherwise the other Commissioners would have liked to have seen him placed m uniform and put on a gate. The fellow's ghastly insolence has earned his timely dismissal from the position of autocrat ; how he originally managed to secure such power is a piquant mystery. But a close examination into the new arrangement reveals the fact that as the Cabinet Minister m charge won't know everything about the show this person MUnro will still be boss m reality— the power behind the throne, or the gin case, or whatever it may be. So exhibitors and others will still be treated like a lot of puppies, unless the Minister m charge is a man of mind, who won't be bossed by anyone. Even though Milnro's position has been changed it would be utterly -impossible to change his atrocious manners, which have got into a sad state of disrepair ; he is tactless and such courtesy as he possesses has red' fur and other excresences on its mottled countenance; which wants nlanino; down to the smoothness of a tombstone. Writing of this fellow is a weariness to the flesh, and it's a pity he was ever placed there to write about. •