Where to Draw the Line.
[to the editor.] Sir, —In rowing, cricket, football, or as a matter of fact in all manly games, the distinctions as to occupations are dismissed as a rule. The exception however appears to be made (or rather has been endeavored to be made) in Gisborne. A prominent member of the Gisborne Rowing Club objects strongly to competitions taking place with the Poverty Bay Rowing Club on the ground that the latter is composed of working men. Of course when looking through green spectac’es everything appears to be green, but I for one object strongly to class distinctions being made. Every man is, or should be a worker, and it makes no difference as to his occupation, be he the wielder of a blacksmith’s hammer, a pen, or the hander down of a roll of calico. I trust this will meet the eye, not only of the person alluded to, but of those others who affect a superiority they certainly cannot claim to possess.—l am, etc., One or the Set.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 538, 29 November 1890, Page 3
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174Where to Draw the Line. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 538, 29 November 1890, Page 3
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