WAKE UP, CLEVEDON!

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 284, 15 June 1917, Page 1

WAKE UP, CLEVEDON!

| To THE EDI TOR] letter from "A Real Clevedoni e" in your issue of the Ist iDSt. He—unwittingly, I presume—exactly expresses the existing state of egoism I wished to imply. Reading between the lines, he says i " Behold ! CLEVEDON ! (Large capitals, please Mr Editor.) Is she not beautiful ? Is she not perfect of her kind What would you more, kind Sirs ?" Beferriug to his statement with respect to " twenty miles or more of good metal roads " I would ask him how many miles of these are County Council Roads; also how many miles he can travel in any direction from Clevedon Post Office—barring the Clevedon-Papakura Road—without getting a good many bumps and even being stuck up in mud. I remember those " chains of spa wis waiting for repairing;" I used to rest on them when I went off for my 20 years' sleep, and they are still there. Question: When does a road need repairing ?—Answer : When you cannot get over, round or under it Visitors come yia Papakura on what is, I grant, a real good road at most times; they come in good weather and all is fair in their sight, but let some of them come along now and see what they will say. All roads lead to Rome (so the old saying goes) but only one road leads to Clevedon. Am I correct in saying the " Progressive" Clevedonites are crying out to be taken into the County Council, where not already under .that body ? As to the Show Grounds, Tennis and Croquet Grounds, etc, are these not managed by about a dozen Progressives as far as the men go, whose motto is " Carry On " and who are handicapped by the Real Clevedonites ?

If anything new is put forward, it is by this small band, or else the ladits have to take it up and it strikes me very forcibly that when it comes to shaking things up the ladies can win every time and the men are " also rans."

The " boys " who volunteered for the front were and net Rt al Clevedonites, or I should say they were the " Real Real Clevedonites," were good sports and the coming strength of the Progressives. I take my hat off to them, and keep it off. To your correspondent's list of " Two mails, two busses, two tennis courts," etc., why not add the two stores, two butchers, two sale-yards, two Co-op. Cream Companies, two smiths and two Churches. X3all Clevedon the Ark "Real Clevedonite" Noah, and you've got the whole show complete, with very nearly the flood included.

Says R»-al Clevedoni.e "lets all pull together," and they do so, but in various directions. —i am, etc RIP VAN WINKLE. Clevedon, June7ii, 1917.