THE BOROUGH JUBILEE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 23, 2 March 1942, Page 4

THE BOROUGH JUBILEE

IT teems rather a pity that the Chamber of Commerce, aftM" going to the trouble of putting the item on the agenda, agreed to delegate the marking of the Borough silver jubilee to the limbo of some distant probable date which might, be next year, sometime, never. It certainly wa.s a plausible method of comfortably disposing of a subject in which few wanted to be interested, while the mention of a probable cost of £500 naturally clinched the agreeable idea of forgetting it. How the £500 bogey gained substance is hard to imagine, unless a quick assessment of a grandiose programme stampeded reason and was swallowed, without rational thinking. Is there anything .to prevent a q atherins' of school children on. the actual day,, the planting 'of a jubilee tree by the mayoress; the making of a few appropriate speeches and a limited supper or dinner to some of the older residents? This to our minds is infinitely better than tossing the observance carelessly into the future. Granted it may become quite impossible to hold even these events at the exact time but surely there is nothing to prevent fueli a simple inexpensive ceremony from being borne in mmd, rather than dismissed out of hand. .