Move On, Mac

NZ Truth, Issue 1192, 4 October 1928, Page 6

Move On, Mac

IT'S not only "the moving finger that writes and having writ, moves on." Ask any public servant or banker or company manager after he has left the lower rungs of the ladder behind him. D. JW. Mcintosh, postmaster at Gi*eymouth has just been told to "move on," not by "a policeman, but, m his case, by those just as much m authority Just as the whitebait are beginning to run, too. Jolly tough luck! But there are many worse places than Hastings : where D.M. is to gather m the postal reins. The West Coast is something of a Siberia by repute to those who haye never^been there, but Mcintosh, like, many others has not found it so. He has. lived m numerous towns 'and has the happy knack of making himself ''one of us" for the time-being. "A public servant gains much and loses 'little 1 by adopting that attitude. So, at least, say all dyed-in-the-wool fine fellow iri his office and a fine sport West Coasters who have found D.M. a on the golf links. And when the Midland express speeds him eastwai'd through the tunnel m the "great divide" it should be rather nice for him to know that he carries with him a goodly parcel of good wishes from a warm-hearted community. .