Bye-Bye Hedges

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 3

Bye-Bye Hedges

KOWHAI.

Sir, — A pat on tbe back fpr "L.L." for a very Hue' letter, and tliis is my swan song. • i Tbe Mayor yyants tbe. beclges ,down j (

so that ear owners can admiro tbe park as tbey vlrive paSt. Tlatighs and laugbs and laugbs. One correspondent w?ants lfgbt* and air. Well, wbat is wroug witb tbe .Takapau plains or, if .tbat is tod far .for a- picnic, . let hixn, take bis family to tbe Beak. No bedgcs -there to spoil tbe view. Personally, I like a sunny sbeltered; epot. . , 1 Cornwall Park alwaya Boems to nib sucb an intimafce * placc ; secludbd " and peaceful. A' plixco - to : sit * and drea.iu awhile. . I wonder vhy.f h'ey . niust- spbil it all. Hedges aro ,so , necessary, ;as breakwinds. . ; * A last word. ' Wby. bas not iBomevno given tliie Mayor a good, bard rap? Ho stated that - be -was • well aware • of tbe Ldentity cf various writers in this. discussion. I, always .understood' tbat a nom-de-plume was strictly cpnbdential ; so is not sucb a statoment putting'tbe editor-- and bis staXf-in bad odbur ?— -

Yours, elc.,

[it is pos'sible . that.. tbe- identity of some writers of anouymous ' letters migbt be revealed by tbe wi'iters tbemselves. .No names are- disclosed'' fi'om the editorial bftteo' witbout tbe-consent of tbe writers.— Ed.Jv .. . „ , - . — — ■ . ^