Wake up, Clevedon !

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 291, 10 July 1917, Page 1

Wake up, Clevedon !

| To the Editor]

Sir— I wish to correct your correspondent "Rip Van Wink'e" in his letter on "Wake up, Clevedon." He is evidently "a new chum" and does not remember the good old times when lie says "Clevedon s adamantive rule is the mi'itary command of "as you was." For instance, once upon a lime we had a good public libraiy, well patronised by the community. Now, _ with about 300 houses in the district, there are about a dozen subsciibers And the subsciiption is orlyamild 6s per annum, cai.ying a l.ght to vote at the annual meeting and bo-a member of the Ha" and I/hrary Committee.

In "the long ago" there was a first class schools' library with, fi think, about 800 volumes-but—-"now, alas! a" shattered, soiled and broken," Talk about inaugurating _ the Buffalo system of school libraries why the wild buffaloes have been at ours some time.

Ehe, ten years ago the township was newlv metalled, no one would accuse it of being in that condition since. Nor would they say it seems cleaner for hav.'ng its earthwork done in the winter. Likewise the rest of the metalled roads were good ten years ago, but now with a rate retuin of about six times as much, they seem to be all shedding their metal for winter time softness—presumably for a sleeping place for tho Road Board and County Council. And so on I might further particularise, but I think I have said enough to show that Clevedon does not "go slow," she is not on the "stand pat" policy, but is "off the track" into mud. — I am, etc., "BORN CLEVEDONITE."

[To the Enrroif: Sir—lt is a great pity that the writer of the letter which appeared in your paper under heading U W ako up, Clevedon" and signed "One who survived the dust storm" cannot fiud somo better way of helping to win the w*r than by throwing mud at those who are working hard in the public interest, in fact for the boys who are going to the war and for the people who are staying at home. If the writer will tiike tho trouble to enquire it can soon tied out what Clevedon representative men and women are doing and have done to help cairy this great burden of war trouble. Clevedon has not yet sent a draft of men away without a - off, nor have any come back without a reception and a lilting i v c ignition from the people. If we do not give the soldiers trumpery piesents when they are going away we lnve a fund in the to provide against want when they come back which is much more lmpoitanf, and if anyone wishes to tis.-Ut they can lind plenty bettei ways than by slinging mud tlnough the columns of the press.—Yours, etc., E. CRAWFOBD MUNRO, Hon. Sec. Local Paliiotic and War Relief Committee. Clevedon, July otli, 1917.