COMPARISONS.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 8 May 1906, Page 2

COMPARISONS.

[To the Editor.] Sib, —In your issue of 24th April was a paragraph taken from the N.Z. Herald, in which reference was made to-Dunedin as ‘‘dull and diriy.” Could you kindly find ypace in your valuable paper for a cutting taken from the Otago Witness in reference to the same paragraph. Thanking you in anticipation, —I am, etc., Ex-Dunedinite. Waipukurau, May 3rd.

To “ Civis.”—You may not have noticed some disparaging references to Dunedin which recently appeared in an Auckland paper, the N.Z Herald : “ Auckland is picturesque and placid, Wellington full of bustie and push, Christchurch spacious and 4 toney,’ and Dunedin dull and untidy. . . . But if the city does not hum with activity if the shops look mean in comparison with those of other cities, and the womenfolk with their fresh complexions have not yet learnt to dress with the taste of their Auckland or Wellington sisters, there is an air of solidity about Dunedin that is nowhere else to be found.” I think this calls for some comment. If Dunedin is dull, dirty, and dilatory, it is to be hoped that our new town clerk will do something to make our city more cheerful, clean, and captivating.—“ The Chiel.” I can but echo so pious a hope. And if the transition is to be from the dull, the dirty, the dilatory to the cheerful, the clean, the captivating, possibly even the alliteration may help. In one poor particular we may claim an advantage already. We of the South think comparisons odious and reflections on our neighbours—the meanness of their shops and shabbiness of their womenfolk —bad form. Otherwise it were easy to retort on the Auckland man, repaying him in his own coin. He a.lows that Dunedin compared with the Northern towns is the better built; perhaps he ought to add though I say it as shoulun’t say ii.. that the Dunedin people are better bred.