CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 17, 20 September 1928, Page 8

CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

(To the Editor).

Sir, —What's the meaning of the report in your last number of the doings of some body, men, women or children, not stated, not a name of chairman, secretary, speakers —a very anoymotis sort of a bodyj seems like don't it? Who and what is the Association? How many members has it got? What's it for? If you put its reports in your paper, you must know something about it, so you please tell us all. I 'ye asked a dozen folks, but they all just grin, and say "Oh not much." What do they mean. Is this body (sounds like a corpse, doesn't it?) the Upper House and the Borough Council the House of Commons? If you can't tell us, will you see whether the chap that must have sent you the report to public has got the '' guts)) (good old Saxon word modernly written "grit") to tell us common folk who the Civic Association is, and who gives it the right to speak on behalf of the people of Lower Hutt. Are they such toffs that they expect clerks in the Council Office to run downstairs and meet 'em, and bow and scrape and how-tow? The twice I've been to the Borough Office I was quickly looked after and by a smiling young lass at that; I don't wan-t better than that. And if anyone has stolen their bell, why let 'em put the "bobbies" on to the thieves! Do they take the councillors for '' coppers" ? Anyhow, Who is the Civic Association? Tell us all that, and you'll interest many more than YORKIE. [We aave, little information at our

disposal to give to our correspondents at present, Dut enquiries will be made and on receipt of the particulars asked for we shall be pleased to again refer to the matter. —Ed. Hutt News.] •