Wake Up, Clevedon!

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 304, 24 August 1917, Page 1

Wake Up, Clevedon!

! To the Editor] Sir—After allowing the froth to settle on ''Rip Van Winkle's" last decoction I find very little left. Hp, however, says he does not blame anyone for the existing state of the roads and proceeds to question my administration of the Whaka—something road. If "Rip" has any specific charge to make I am quito prepared to hear it. I note "Rip's" progress in scripture. "Some going" he calls it. I trust it is not confined to a mere flipping over of the leaves.

And now the reason for the use of the nom do plum-} becomes apparent. It is "modesty," the modesty of the '"new chum element" (look 'carefully' through "Kip's" first letter). But Rip has not finished tho romance. lie put "Real Clevedonite" into my conveyance without an introduction. Rather rude of 'Ri[t' or perhaps due to the extreme modesty of the "newchumjelement" and procured for himself a monster of prehistoric design and rushing past in a cloud of dust, much to the discomfiture of my homely steed, disappeared down that Whaka-something road, beating tho rain by inches, and arriving at "Waitwaddle" to the consternation of tho poultry and amazement of the peaceful Kine. Then being hemmed in by succeeding floods, "Rip" in his further journeyings had perforce to fall back upon the services of a lineal detcc-nd-ent of a pair of quadrupeds, thoughtfully provided for by Noah in alloting the space of the aik. I am, etc JOHN LUKE, Whakatiri, August 18 th. 1917