The Feilding Star SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1888. " Stupid as a Pot"

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 106, 7 April 1888, Page 2

The Feilding Star SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1888. " Stupid as a Pot"

We do net know who is to blame, neither do we care, for the perfectly idiotic manner in which the alterations, additions, and improvements, are being made to the local Railway Station aud Post Office. ~ We will do the author — or authors — the justice of ; saying the new station building is a vast improvement on the miserable shed which has done duty for so many years, while the widenod platform will prove a great convenience to the travelling public or local sight-seeers, whose business or pleasure takes them there. But we must explain ourselves. The new station building has been erected a number of feet back from the old site, in order that increased platform accommodation may • be given, and a vacant space of say fifteen or twenty feet left between the » said new building and the old post ' office which has, by the way, been rejuvenated by a fresh coat of very > melancholly looking paint. The old ' narrow wooden platform opposite the Post Office is to be left untouched, the heads of spikes, which are sticking up half an inch above the planks, are not even to knocked down level with the floor. Why a complete job could not ' have been made by shifting back the post office building to the same line as ' the station building is one of these i things ho ordinary man can under- > stand. It may be that as the Post Office Department is separate from the l Railway Department, the several Heads may not have been able to agree as to whether the post office building should be put in a line with the station building, or vice versa, or some equally plausible reason. The additional expense could not be the cause, as that seldom influences persons whose sole occupation is to spend ' public money. It is true the railway hands are doing what work is being done in the way of pulling down and putting up, but the fact of the Post Office being painted the same dismal hue as the station proves a community of interests on one point anyway. • Where the shoe pinches the good people of Feilding is the consciousness they will be made ridiculous, and nobody likes to be laughed at even if the cause of laughter be beyond their i control. The people of Switzerland . have a saying "As stupid as a Pot" ; in New Zealand we will be able to say » «' As Btupid as a Public Work." In '. concluding these remarks we may suggest to the " Powers that be" it is [ not too late to shift the post office and make the public buildings a credit to ' the place, and a monument of good sense on the part of the Government.