WANTED—A MOTTO
Sir, —So our Whakatane Chamber of Commerce wants a motto! Therefore local shopkeepers and professional men-are' delving' into Latin,. French and poetry.i That reminds me of the successful business man (it must have been in Scotland) who made sufficient money to retire from the occupation of charging the pubflßl® much as the public would pay. S- So he built a fine house and thar'name on the gate was "Duai4 Robin." Then there was the chairman of an electric light company (no, not our local power board) who finished his address to the public; "Our motto is, in the words of Tennyson: 'Forward the Light Bri-» gadeV Whereupon one'of the house holders (thinking of his lighting bill) added another line from Tennyson's celebrated poem: "O'h, what a charge they made." Of course aU the above has nothing to do withi Whakatane, which, as all know (to their cost) is the cheapest place on earth to live in. ROBIN HOOD,
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 289, 31 March 1941, Page 4
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160WANTED—A MOTTO Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 289, 31 March 1941, Page 4
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