THE LOAN OF A GOAT.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 June 1916, Page 3

THE LOAN OF A GOAT.

TO THE EDITOR

Sir, —I see you now possess a goat. I am writing, to ask if you will be so kind as to lend it to the Helensville Town Board, to tie to the Hospital fence and to eat the blackberries over-running the footpath. They are such a nusiance to the ladies on their way to Church. They tear stockings and skirts, what is worse, scratch their dear little legs. I have heard "ladies " do not have such things, but the Town Board blackberries have convinced some of the young ones that they have. -Thanking you in anticipation —I am, yours very truly,

Alvira Slimmins, Anzac Street, Helensville, 21-6-16.

[True, there is a nanny on our private premises, but it is only on hire at so much per week. For anyone to think that the Echo could afford to "own" a goat is monstrous. Why, we cannot afford to keep a printer's devil, let alone a goat, as so many people persist in merely borrowing the ECHO to read, in neighbourly kindness, don'tcherknow. The best way to avoid blackberries on the footpath is to take the road for it, as most people do who are careful of their shins these dark evenings and in the absence of lamp-lights.—Ed. Echo.]