Knows His Onions

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 6

Knows His Onions

ONIONS and cycle-racing are synonymous in Christchurch — and the reason. is supplied by W. J. Waltei, king of Mairehau's onion-growers and the big noise in professional cycling in Canterbury. Everyone who knows anything about onions or about cycling' knows Jock Walter, but his interests extend further than his vocation and his recreation, for he is a member of the WaimaJrt County Council— rumor says that he had a hand in the actual naming of the county- and' rumor Ib Just about right — the North Canterbury Hospital Board, the Chrlstchurch Tramway Board, the Lyttelton Harbor Board a.hd the Christchurch i Drainage Board. • / And, just as he knows hia onions, he knows all about the activities of the bodies with which he is associated. He is about the best authority on cycling in Canterbury. A fighter, he will battle to the bitter end-r-and then some — for any cause he takes up. He is no vacillating pleaser of public fancy; probably that is why his fellow-citizens have asked him to take such a big share in public work, for it is a safe bet that once Walter has made up his mind it stays made up. . ' . * He works hard for the common good. Many people wonder how he can find the time, but if - you .put the, nnestinn to Jock he'll smile and tell you that he gets up early and does his own work first.