WAKE UP, CLEVEDON!

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 277, 22 May 1917, Page 2

WAKE UP, CLEVEDON!

[ To the Editor] Sir—With respect to an article appearing in the "Times" of May 15th last, under the heading of Clevedon News, I beg to take exception, and wish to reply to your correspondent. I cannot for the life of me see how anyone can be so unjust as to accuse Clevedon of having adopted the "go slow" policy, when it is quite evident that our adamantine rule is the military command of "as you were." To be accused of 'going'—although qualified to a moderate 'slow' movement —is a great injustice Then again, about the lamps. The Farmers' Union had the temerity to suggest a public lamp, to be erected by the Post Office, some two years ago, but—like one of our great statesmen once quoted—we soon settled thom by adopting a policy oi "masterly inactivity." This Farmers' Union is getting too if we are not careful it's going to disturb ' the even tenor of our way.' Clevedon was existing very nicely until this new chum element broke into our seclusion, and started to upset our old established customs by putting forward newfangled notions. What I say is "what was good enough for our great Grandfathers is good enough for me."

Adam and Eve never had a gas lamp, nor were they on the telephone to my knowledge. And now someone has the presumption to publicly state that the progressive party has got a ioothold in Clevedon and has got us on the " go," and suggests that we require a light thrown upon our " goings," no doubt with the idea that we will wake up. I beg toinform him that we will require a lot of pushing before we will move, even slowly, and if he does not like the dark let him do as we do and stay at home every evening and so not upset things. I can show your correspondent " Johnson Holes " in some of the highways that have been there since Captain Cook's tim« and if these were filled in how would you find your way home without these land (or I should say " mud ") marks ? Yours etc., RIP VAN WINKLE. Clevedon, 21st May, 1917.