A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE.
(Fer Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March D. At tho Fire Ilrigades dinner fast night J. W. Hrlndley, manager of I the State Fire Insurance Department, was set down to reply to the toast of the insurance companies. I This had mined the ire of nomo at li-iist of the Insurance managers, and oh' writes to tho Port in this strain ;—"Punny incidents do occur occasionally, hut I have, never heard of anything' more laughable than tho circumstance of Mr lirindley (the State Fire Insurance manager) replying at the annual Fire lu-igade dinner last evening to the toast ni •The Insurance Cotimanfe«.'~-A-4«aar' |is usually understood to be complimentary, and tho person who acknowledges it to represent those | toasted, but Mr lirindley, so far from representing the insurance cotn[panlcs, conducts un institution moil ■ strongly antagonistic to theui.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7759, 10 March 1905, Page 2
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138A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7759, 10 March 1905, Page 2
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