A HEAVY INDICTMENT.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 248, 24 February 1894, Page 2

A HEAVY INDICTMENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAK Sir, — The days are now drawing in, and the cool evenings we have experienced lately suggest that winter will soon be upon us. The winter evenings are naturally associated in our minds with concerts, socials, and dances ; and in most townships the execution of these evening amusements seems to come natural to the inhabitants who believe in the old adage " All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." But Feilding ? No ! Feilding is dead to all pretence at festivity, and were it not for the fact that the people wander round the streets admiring the shop shutters, like mutes, one would fancy they hibernated. There are plenty of young fellows here who can sing a good song, give a recitation, and perhaps have talent in some other direction, but who, up to the present, have preferred to let their abilities lie dormant. But why is it ? If half .1 do/en or so were to start a little Society amongst themselves, there are plenty who would roll up behind them, only too glad to help to make those evenings enjoyable. Now you young men, wake up, and see if something cannot be done in this direction. " Bring out I your lutes and harps and make the hills resound with song." Then Feilding will soon become a place of joy and happiness instead of a living tomb. j I am, etc., j VISITOiS.