DREAMS.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 5, 26 June 1930, Page 11

DREAMS.

About the timn when the last Art Union was due to be drawn, I indulged in day-dreaans as to -how I was going to spend tho two thousand whidh. I would so soon be winning. An assembly hail for my district sojiool was. the first dream, a cheap but reliable secondhand car for our overworked clerical heart, a sand-pit for infant sc&Qlars, car for myself and family and a trip to England wero some of tlhe "littler" items I had thought of. Alas, the ticket 1 would have ehosten wasi a winner of £5, but being overruled I bbugihf a different, one, the result of course being what one might except —notlhing doing. My day-dreams turned to night dreams this week, after hearing someone call the old Fesist corner an ugly "hump" since the shops had closed. In my dream I had amassed a fortune, and being of a piit)lic-»TOBited nature^ I proceeded to have,a plan carried out to beautify our town. = I bpugiLt the old corner and built a four-sided brick and conereto building, consiating of threo floors, each side of the building as pleasing as the other, not an ornate front, and hideous concrete backY On the ground floor facing the Main street was the netw Post Office, the side facing Woburn I^oad, on ground floor, was t>he reading room of" the. Library, where •grandfathers could read in sunshine and without climbing. On the new bridge side ground floor, was an Out-patient Department of the Government.Hospital' iwiicro hard-ups could attend the Olinie w-hich was presided over and served, 'by some of the Hospital staff, materially helped by our own local men, with their •longer experience. The end facing soutih to Woburh Road was the Red. Cross Depot. .

On; the first flqor upstairs were our teleph one operators?, telegrapiists, and offices fot same. Lending. Library over •the Beading Room, Dispensary over tfhe Out-patients (iwhat bus fares were going to be saved incidentally, and lunches in town). Over the Bed Cross room as a Committee Room for the use ■ ■■ of those investigating eases seeming to call for itidlp of various kinds. The ov-holc of the top floor -was occupied by the Borough Council as its chambers', with windo-ws and nothern lights so arranged that it was a suntrap all day-

I must not forget that an area all round the building was laid out in grass and quick-growing ornamental trees, as at & I)annevirke Post Ofliiee', with seats for the old and tired and for another with the pram. There was also a space at the new bridge end for the building where a shelter was constructed in keeping wilTi; my building, for passengers to wait in for the bus. That .a%o had much glass, with only a small doonway, so that the maximum of shelter woeld ibe afforded on a wet or windy day,. .Tihere was a very'nice shallow stepped stainway from the front door or the Post Office side, in a y squale hall, into which led the doors'1/from the otht>r ibuildirigs, and oh each ' floor was a similaT hall. - ■>• :■:■' •

AJh!; dash tlLkt beastly Eaiitway Workr shops whistle, it went before I had decided to agitate for a bus, service to -run up Waburn Eoad- to my wonderful dream building, so T had to get up and. walk to it, or to where it ought t-o -have been, had I only dreant on, instead of waking up. and spoiling it aOl. Again I s,ay, • Dash the blooming workslho'ps whistle. . MOPIA MOEPHEUS.