Bailey's Job

NZ Truth, Issue 1183, 2 August 1928, Page 6

Bailey's Job

A SHORT, little man, but with a keen face and a penetrating glance from a pair of all-seeing eyes.' Conjure up this picture and invest the model with a phrenological bump of sublime self-assurance — and you have the officer-in-charge of the Labor Department m Christchurch, R. T. Bailey. '■"'•.' It may be said at once that Bailey knows his job and does it well, as at least one shopkeeper who appeared m court for after-hour trading m cigarettes knows to his cost. . It happened this way. Bailey overheard something when cycling along a city street and followed up the clue, the result being a show-down m court. When prosecuting, Bailey, employs all the tricks and arguments of "my learned friend," and, when on his feet, dalights m showing what he can do by way of cross-examination.. ./. It must be handed to Bailey— when it comes to conducting a case he could show some of the lesser, legal fry several points. ' ','■- A genial little man, Bailey, who came to the Cathedral City from Wellington, is well liked and esteemed by employees and employers alike.