FACETIOUS.
The Christciiureh Press waxes facetious at the expense of Auckland, in a recent issue it had the following:—
"A German scientist with an English name has been telling the people of Auckland that the "Queen -City of the Waitemata," or rather its site, is only "in the extremity'" of New Zealand's volcanic area, and therefore further eruptions there are "extremely unlikely." Possibly the visitor has not been long in Auckland or he wouldn't say that. Auckland is nite frequently in a state of eruption. Sometimes it is about Wellington. Sometimes it is about its railway station, its now post office (when it wanted the old as well as the new one), or its Government House, which it would not take as a gift as a university site. The last eruption has been quite n violent one. It was because someone .said that there ought to be a Governor's residence in the South Island at Christciiureh. The audacious suggestion was overwhelmed in an outbreak of verbal mud and ashes by an Auckland contemporary. We can hardly accept the statement that volcanic action in Auckland has ceavsed yet."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 March 1913, Page 4
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187FACETIOUS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 March 1913, Page 4
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