WANGANUI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 171, 28 October 1910, Page 4

WANGANUI.

The Lord Mayor of Melbourne little knew what he was doing when in complimenting the successful Wanganui band he alluded to Wanganui as "a small town in. a sister dominion." The scathing nature of. his allusion can only be adequately shown by mentioning Wanganui's varied claims to celebrity. It was Wanganui that gave to fame William Webb; the great sculler; it was at Wanganui that people rejoiced in the glorious spectacle of a record pianoplaver, agitating the keyboard for an unconscionable number of hours. It was at Wanganui that the discovery of th,? "fasting cure*' was the signal for a general cessation from eating. Wanganui was selected by a beneficent Providence as a site for a river, and the "small town in a sister dominion!' finds it hardlv necessary to gyrate with joy at short periods at the performances' of gifted citizens. It is not intended to dash the exuberance of a particularly happy town by allusions that may be taken as a feeble attempt at satire, for the admirable achievements of one of the most important towns in the Southern Hemisphere are the envy of all the other centres. It was at Wanganui that a wild woman was seen but never captured. u * eti to scream and disappear. Wanganui saw a better view of the German airship than any other of the large centres Wanganui received so many congratulations on its various achievements that, to add one other would be merely burnishing the sun, and in the success nLr" " d , las adequate reason for a continued jubilation that will carry it along un til the genius of the, community pioauces another prodigy.