WHERE'S FORREST?

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1865, 19 June 1884, Page 3

WHERE'S FORREST?

TO TIIK KDITOR. Sir, — "Where's Foncst?" was a very geneial cnijuiry at theFaimeis' Co opeiative Association meeting on Tuesday. Some naughty people said he was .if 1 aid to bo there because thcie was danger of his being toasted, and when I looked over the heads of the people, and saw a redfaced man with a pair of specs on looking tound, and again the question repeated " Wheio's Fonest?" I lowered my head, fearing I might be taken for that celebrated individual, but felt greatly lelieved on being told that the Mr Foirest wore a giey hat. Mine is black, so I became boldei and asked if that was the Forrest whose family eat so much bread. "Yes,"' said my neighbour, "and tint is the reason lie wants a flour mill in Waikato, and that he was resolved to bring it befote the directors and get it started at once, as it would only cost about £4000. ' " Yes," said another neighbour, " be did bung on a motion last night and got it rained, and what do you think it was? Why, that the dnectois should keep in view in the futuio the election of a flour mill in connection with the gianary.'" I asked, "Whcic is the granaiy?" "Oh," leplied my imformant, "the directois ate to keep it in view." 1 was about to ask for more precise infoimatiou when he moved on. Now, I want to know more about this "keeping in \iew," especially when I think about the old saying that distance lends enchantment to the view. It appeais to me that the only person who is capable of supplying the missing link as to distance in the new is the individual in the giey hat, so I repeat the question, "Whlrk's Fokri>t?"

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