“DAVEY’S AISLE.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 49, 29 October 1913, Page 4

“DAVEY’S AISLE.”

“I’ll steer my barque through Davey’s aisle,” is a line which tiie Wellington passenger and conductor will by able to say or sing, according to. one wag, says the Wellington “Post,” By a peculiar turn of fortune’s wheel, one of the quietest members of the. House of Representatives*\lr T. H. Davey. of Christchurch East, has been lifted into the public eye, and he seems disposed to blush at finding himself famous, in a new word, “Daveyise.” At least, ho submitted modestly during debate that he had not sought praise at any time since 1911, when Ids clause for the interior passage first agitated the Wellington City Corporation. This was in reply to a sugges-tion-—as he understood the words—hy Sir Joseph Ward that Mr Davey believed himself entitled to sole credit for the reform. At the conclusion of his speech the Leader of the Opposition did give praise to the pioneer work done hy'Mr Davey, and added: “1 don’t know whether a compliment extended from me is acceptable-or not; that is a matter of indifference to me.” In a personal explanation, Mr Davey mildly objected to tiie “little sting which lie had not deserved.” The incident seemed to reveal some slight “feeling” between Sir Joseph Ward and one of the Liberal Party.