LEAVE IT TO GEORGE

NZ Truth, Issue 1195, 25 October 1928, Page 6

LEAVE IT TO GEORGE

STOUT, florid, heavy-jowled, sociable, humorous at times, is George Baildon, who wears the plush and ermine robes of mayor of the Queen City. To look at George on the mayoral dais m the council chamber is to see a man who has the knack of looking slightly bored. _ j; But probably it is' <his inherent passivity and familiarity with the monotonous voices of his councillors that puts the look,, of. unruffled calm up.on his face. ' : . ... . . As Mayor of New Zealand's principal city— as he would tell you it is— George has not been a super-man or a particularly brilliant occupant of the chair. He has many critics to chide him (he deserves it at times, too), but Baildon has done what he considers his best for the city, although there, are those who are unkind enough to' say that he could have done much better. Still, a man cannot please everybody— and George B. has developed a pretty thick civic hide by now. „' . .-■ ' . „ .... .... Unperturbed by his critics,, he can say "Next business" without a blink.