SHANNON MANNERS.

Shannon News, 8 July 1921, Page 3

SHANNON MANNERS.

(To the Editor.) jSir,—ln E the last issue of your paper I saw aiiother letter .from- "Form a Queue.” I see he is boasting about having travelled 20,000 miles by rail. Well, now, what if he has? Does that make him an authority to speak about the manners of the people of Shannon? My experience is that a man could travel 20,000 miles by rail and see or know veijy little about the country he went through. He would learn very little by-that kind of travelling. I see he mentions Foxton, and holds that up as an example to us. Now, I may say that Foxton is the only town in New Zealand that I have never been in. And I thought that there not ■ enough people in Foxton to fotm a queue.- In any case, “Form a que” missed the real point. Even if he has travelled more than me, what- of that? It is not the distance travelled that counts, but the amount of knowledge and experience gained' by that ! travel". I still hold that the people of Shannon are just as well-conducted as any in New Zealand, and “Form* a Queqe” owes them an apology for calling them “hoodlums,” whatever that may be. It must be some word of his own, because I could not find it in - the die- 1 tlonary. For my part, I don’t expect any apology. You can’t expect blood out of a stone. In conclusion, I may state that from - what I know’ 'of “Form a Queue;” to judge; by his writing slang expressions; I do not take him to be much of an authority on manners or what they ought to be.—l am, etc., COMMON SENSE.