Luckie Martin

NZ Truth, Issue 1149, 8 December 1927, Page 8

Luckie Martin

THE pugnacity of Wellington's Martin Luckie is as well known as the

proverbial bulldog, and when he goes after a thing he generally gets it. That is not to say he is spoilt m

the process of successful bu s 1 n ess enterprise, for if he is beaten on any point he takes it like a man.

Martin doesn t venture forth as a teller of events, unless he is sure of his subject, but when the matter of rating on the annual or unimproved value was about, to be put to the public vote he had quite a lot to say on the subject Rating is one of his pet theories. Martin told the sceptical ratepayers if they voted m favor of rating on the ttnimproved value their rates the following year would go up with a jump. The people didn't accept Martin's ideas on annual value, but they found he was right so far as the increase went.

Martin doesn't go round with a smile of "I told you so" on his face; nevertheless he feels pretty satisfied with his earlier prognostication on the matter and holds no sympathy with the public. As a practising barrister and solicitor and as a city councillor, it is a wonder he finds time at all to delve m the other numerous side issues In jwhioh he ls involved.