Municipal Chief

NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 6

Municipal Chief

JUST returned from a holiday trip to Sydney, and looking' generally toned up fifty per cent., John W. Greenslade, Greymouth's big: chief m municipal affairs, 'is naturally fresh I with civic ideas. ; • What public man wouldn't be under modern journalistic conditions, with the probability of a battery of cameras and a Hock of eager pressmen waiting to pounce on him on his return.' A year ago John brought back from Sydney with him a charming bride, and all Greymouth "smiled a happy welcome, for their bachelor mayor had evidently had a heart-to-heart talk with more than himself on the voyage. There ia not a great deal of J.W! He is spare m frame, but it takes a lot to hold down, a good little man. | Mayor Greenslade says what he means and makes no hones about that, even if it begins with his stock intro. — "It gives me great pleasure . , . " And since J.W. has captured the Greymouth public by his outspokenness and bright personality, his stock intro. is usually reciprocated by the general public.