AFTER MANY YEARS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4994, 30 June 1926, Page 2

AFTER MANY YEARS.

[Contributed.] The first shall be last, And the last shall be first, So after seventeen years We can again quench our thirst; Not that this seventeen years We’ve ever been dry, But how much more, palatable When not on the sly.

Ohinemuri as a prohibited district Has proved prohibition a ’farce; And the bottle raised for seventeen years Must now give way to the glass. It’s for what the eye does not see That the heart does not beat, Yet a drink at the bar is worth two in the street.

The cards have been played, And the ra.ee .is now run ; So continuance ca ; n smile While Bone-dry looks glum. We can meet once again boys, And pay ninepence a nip; Then to show no ill-feeling Give Bone-dry the tip.

■On the first of July, boys, Let’s meet our old friends At the bar or the winning post, While Bone-dry takes the befids. Continuance means freedom, Prohibition does not: Give Bone-dry 'fresh water, But give us our “spot.”

No more trips awa.y by train In thunder, lightning, and in rain ; Still, we’ll not set our town afire — Good-bye, ta-ta, Hikutaia.

No moie trips the other way; We’ve played the game aiid won the

■day. Tod.st the strength of Paeroa— Good-bye, ta-ta, Te Aroha.