CORRESPONDENCE

Wairarapa Age, 26 March 1920, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE

WAKE UP, WHAKATAKI!

*. (To the Editor.) Sir, —It has been said, and I believe truly, that the present is an age of progress, but the dweller in the district of Whakataki must often think (if he thinks at' all) of King George's words to England when he returned, from a visit to his overseas Dominions. Except that instead of "Wake .up England," they ply" the words to'themselves, and cry, !«vVake up, Whakataki!" Surely, and not very slowly, Whakataki is retrogressing. One has only to look at the v.llage hall to see the hand of neglect and decay. One has only to hear the story of the nearly lost Post and Telephorfe Office, saved to an apathetic district by a private guarantor. One has only to wade in water through its bridgeless and stay to public worship in the slovenly building that is. the best that the district can "afford. One has only to read in the newspaper that itsfschool and the lot it stands on is to be' sold at a valuation (not even by public auction), to realise the state of hopeless apathy that has settled over the district. Is it too late to infuse some spark of life into these dry bones? Is it too late to cry "Wake up Whakataki 1" or has the age long Bleep of Bp Van' Winkle' settled upon it?—l am, etc.,' ' > . HEREWARD.