POMPOUS VILLA NAMES.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 305, 12 September 1929, Page 8

POMPOUS VILLA NAMES.

Apparently every purcha~er of a suburban villa feels that he is entitled to paint whatever seems to him an appropriate name- on the front fence. Be it ever so humble, it still becomes Sans Souci, The Chestnuts, Rudder Grange, or something equally impressive.

Now the London postmen are showing signs of rebeTon. Too many letters are being mailed to such addresses as The Willows, Golden Greer, without adding the street and number, and it has been suggested that the proper remedy is a tax on such names. A tax is already exacted for anyone who wants a family crest on a carriage or motor car, and the question is asked whether a high-sounding •lame on a cottage is any less an exhibifon of vanity Sometimes however, all the neighbours are not in accord on the subject of names. A writer in the “Manchester Guardian ” says he knows two small vilas side by side in a Thamesside village which face the great wall of an estate. One owner put the name Bellevue on his gate, and his neighbour matched this with Bellview. Another villa name in a northern suburb of London seems to hint (hat all of the family were not agreed in choosing the house. The cottage is called Mary’s Mistake.