PATEA’S PROGRESS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1783, 31 January 1918, Page 2

PATEA’S PROGRESS.

A SCEPTIC’S VIEWS

The Paten. Press the oilier any stated (hot the loeal Chamber of Commerce would, at its next meeting', consider a project which, if it materialises, make Patea a second Ell ham correspondent of Ihe IlaPalmerston North, so an Eltham correspondent of the Hawera B(ar evokes the muse: —

Now that you’ve fold us a little bit, Oh, please let us into the know! What's the thing you’ve got “in your kit?”

What is it that makes you crow?. Have you brought Aladdin’s lamp From Arabia’s sandy plain? Or is it a little trick you’ve found To boom your city.again? Why at Palmerston North you stop Is a little puzzle to me; Why not aim for the bally top, The highest branch of the tree? New Zealand cities are not so great, There’s room for another to sprout. So give your Hip Van Winkles a pinch And go for a clean “knock out.” Why not a city like Sydney town, Or a Melbourne fair to behold 1 A second New York of great renown, Too long you’ve stayed in tho (•old. Act while the current is at its floodj AVhy wait for the ebbing tide? And keep your object steady m view, Tho’ others may jeer and deride. But, say, I really would like to find—; I’d like to get into the know What wonderful scheme you’ve got in your mind For your dear little township to grow. Ere your vacant plots begin to enhance, Ere the landsharks have swallowed the lot, Give an importunate beggar a chance, And please let him into the “plot.” —E.P. Eltham.