"LOATH TO LEAVE."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1635, 31 December 1912, Page 4

"LOATH TO LEAVE."

VISITING MAYOR Ols

"Wtat do I think of Wellington?" re« peated' Mr. B.aragwanath, Mayor of .South Melbourne and president of the South Melbourne Cricket Club, whose representatives left for the south lastevening. "I think it's a bonny go-ahead place ana we're loath to leave iMrot I suppose we ' must push ou. We have been riven a real good time during our stay here, and what's more our boys have been jiveu a real good game—a better one than we expected. ''You've got some pretty good material here, don't make any mistake about; that! Tour wickets are not so fast as ours—l think tlint made a little difference to our men.

"I have been having a quiet look round since I have been here, and judge that you are pretty well up-to-date fronl _ u municipal point of view. Everything seems to me to be dono on the right lines, and built solid. You 1 have a fin© harbour, too. Deep wtter everywhere. That's a great advantage—not having to bother about tho state of the tide. "I don't quite figure whether if is nu advantage or not,_ but the ladies of Wei- _ lington are certainly the nicest-looking and most stylish I have seen yet.on the' tour, and all our boys aire of the samo opinion. Tl;cy are so healthy-looking and (inartificial—that's 'what I like. alxwt them! There's something in the air here. Do you know for years past I have al-j ways awakened at 8 o'clock in the morning—just for a few minutes. But straiwo to say I have slept right on until tho breakfast-call every morning since I have been in Wellington. The first time I' slept - right through, I thought it was on accident, but it line been the same every morningi Wellington should be boomed as a health resort!",