SPRI'G IS HERE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 1, 28 August 1945, Page 5

SPRI'G IS HERE

t>H YEAH !

ACCORDING TO THE CALENDAR

ANYWAY

I "The flowers that bloom in the Spring tra~la, Have nothing to do with* the thing tra-la Tra-la la la etc." With a Hey nonny nonny and a wuff wuff wuff, Spring is here Spring is here )according to the calander invented by Julias Caesar). It is also here according to the Bay of Plenty Times (Tauranga), which organ has printed a small par headed 'Spring in the Air.' (The majority of subscribers did not obey this terse command).

The paragraph in question says : "With temperatures becoming warmer, indications are that Tauranga will be experiencing an early spring.," (Calls to mind the old and hackneyed tack on chair practical joke). "Some fruit trees had budded and blossomed as early as last month and everywhere signs of approaching spring are visible.

But alas! The almost universal Wfoa'katane pronounciation of this approaching event, concerning which poets, in olden times hurled * themselves into rhyming verse unrhyming verse, blank verse and reverse has become not 'Spring ' but 'Sprig' spoken with totally blocked nasal organ and sniffly gesture. It is muttered into moist handkerchiefs, spluttered over the smell of eucalyptus and repeated over regular doses of cough mixture. i

it is indeed unfortunate but nevertheless a fact. Spring has gone to the heads of all and sundry in an unwanted form.

But let us not dwell on the sordid side of the season, for Spring brings all sorts of things besides colds. It brings fine days (now'n again) and plenty of sun in which human beings bask. It brings trees in leaf in which birds squat and tweet and it brings flowers in bloom in which the bees rejoice.

But the Meteorological Officer seems to need stirring up on the matter. Surely the weather clerks must be still'hibernating under the impression that Winter has not yet gone, for day after day they keep on ordering rain and more rain. And day after day rain and more rain conies without fail. Grrh!

Spring leads inevitably to summer (according to the. calendar invented by Julias Caesar). Note: The Bay of Plenty Times (Tauranga) has nothing to do with this statement.) This fact is just by the way.