"I Like Myself"

NZ Truth, Issue 1191, 27 September 1928, Page 7

"I Like Myself"

THERE is a little ditty, composed * and. sung by a Jay Pee named A. R. Hornblow, entitled "I Like Myself," that by now should be whistled and echoed m every bunk and recreation room of the Weilington police. .' The refrain appears to have been quite extemporaneous, as are a number of other little personal conceits, and considerably brightened the somewhat stultified atmosphere of the by-laws court last week. Constable Morrison, who has led by the nose many a roaring exhaust merchant along the HuttV Road to the police court, had the temerity to address Hornblow and R. W. Burbidge, the two associates on the bench, as "Sir," instead of "Your Worships." Terrible! Jay Pee Hornblow leaned, forward across his papers, aghast that the awful dignity of two justices of the peace had .been so lightly disregarded, and said: "Constable Morrison! I would like you to address the bench as 'Sirs.' We are acting m conjunc- , tion and are therefore entitled to be addressed as 'Sirs'." The paperweight 1 of embryonic" authority appears to weigh heavily •n the shoulders of some people.