STATION 2YD TOWN AND COUNTRY

New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 360, 17 May 1946, Page 5

STATION 2YD

TOWN AND COUNTRY

Sir.-Your leading article on the above subject is timely. Personally, I do not think that the small minority of town people who misbehave themselves while in the country are actuated so much by selfishness as through sheer ignorance. Truly, the ignorance of some of these people is astonishing. I once read a news patagraph about a city motorist who, having met with some mishap on the road, and not wishing to bother a near-by farmer, took 4 length of wire from a fence to repair a minor damage to his car. In payment for this wire, worth perhaps less than a penny, he left 10/- on the gate post for the farmer. This, according to the paragraph, was a most gentlemanly way to act and one which would tend to remove any hostility there may exist between the town and country. It had not occurred to the motorist that these wires yes, every one of them-were on the fence for purposes other than ornament, and that removing one of them, even though only a short length, may have caused damage far greater than his car was worth. This could have easily happened in the case of stud flocks: rh We teach our children in the schools how ‘to behave in traffie on the roads, Could not this idea be carried a bit further and give the kiddies some inkling of civic responsibilities generally. This goes for the town as well as the country. No doubt there are phases of city life which could with advantage be made known to the country children, thereby ensuring greater harmony among all sec= tions of our community,

P.

W.

(Te Awamutu).