SYDNEY’S TOWN CLERK.
AIT’IiOACHLN G RETIKEM ENI. SYDNEY, May 1. Sydney’s town clerk, Mr T. H. Nesbitt, is well-known in New Zealand, where for many a year'lie lias spent his annual vacations, Hw ot us in. Sydney can remember the time when any other name appeared at •tlie foot of the city’s official documents. But' Mr Nesbitt’s fame does nqt rest entirely upon his knowledge , of tilings civic, profound as that may be. Rather is he known by liis literary style • a style as individual as that* of Carlyle, which in many ways it resembles. In fact, his enemies say that Mr Nesbitt hopes to be regarded as a sort of modern reincarnation of Carlyle. Probably Mr Nesbitt’s finest effort came under notice a few years ago, when someone had some spare time and began to read Mr Nesbitts annual report of the City of Sydney. There he came across the town clerk s opinion of the then Minister for Local Government, given freely and fully, to the extent of some four pages of the book. The opening sentence ran to nearly half a page. Then came the great work which placed Mr Nesbitts’ name on everybody’s tongue. It appeared that a suburban council had objected to the Tact that the City Council had no 'Union Jack flying on Anzae Day. MrNesbitt replied! He merely told 4 hat council to mind its. own business. But ■lie told it in about 2000 -words, most of them unpronounceable and stretched out over only a dozen, or so sentences. When the offending council had heard tiie letter read, and the clerk who read it had recovered liis wind, the letter was returned. Mr Nesbitt, alas, is retiring. He has also reached the three score and ten years, and the only tiling that appears to be stepping him from retiring immediately upon the return of the de-puty-town clerk from London, as it was expected that lie would, is,that some of the aldermen have made a move to force him to'tlo so. Wo have yet to be favoured with Mr Nesbitt’s opinion of those aldermen. Anyway, he has been great adminnstrator, and Sydney will be lucky indeed if his successor keeps tile interests of the city at heart as well as has Thomas Huggins Nesbitt. , —■—
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Shannon News, 20 May 1924, Page 4
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380SYDNEY’S TOWN CLERK. Shannon News, 20 May 1924, Page 4
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