POLITICS LOSES LAST OF LARRIKINS

PETER Webber,who died after a recent short illness, was the last of the real larrikin local government representatives on the Gold Coast.

Your columnist fondly remembers spotting the long-legged alderman pedalling on a kid’s bicycle around the Evandale chambers as he arrived for a meeting in the late 1980s.

The former Vietnam veteran, who later helped many people as a psychologist, could have easily dodged the publicity but he agreed to get back on the bike for a photograph and story on the consequences of losing your licence for drink driving.