"LOST SHEEP" FROM DEVONPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1927, Page 8

"LOST SHEEP" FROM DEVONPORT.

A couple of Jiari.our Board mrmbm at Tuesday"* meeting are credited with bavinstated that the North Shore resident.* are. in the habu of behaving like "lost sheen*" in Street., also of "spreading out like a fan," and ••docking" in and out. as thev caj] it. Tin suggestaon of the drawing of whit* Imes in tb» vicinity mentioned appears 1o me to be ridiculous when one considers the fact thai on* boat alone from Devon port during the busy hours disembarks passengers which are equal in number to about a doeen full trams and the latter conveyances are distributing'their passcngcrs at various points en route, while those who travel on the boat have to make their exit Ibrou S h the limile-d spa.ee afforded by the i<-rrr archway into Vuar Street, perhaps the members in quesUon" would like us lo appoint an n.r.o from amongst the passcugcr* on the crowded morning boats so that we could be lined up on the wharf m military fashion, formed into fours, and marched across the roadway or on to our respective places of employment, falliig out as required. Or, perhaps, as an alternative, thev would like each one of us to l.e placed on 'a leash and led across ibe street in similar manner to that which threaten!, our dogs. Personally, my only trouble on arrival in the cirv in the mommas is the "docking m and out, amonpsl a Jew slowly-moving pedestrians (many of whom do nol keep to the left/ who are already in town in the ricin.tr of Quar Street. and who. in some cases, stand in small groups in the centre of the footpalh. discussiti" iheir favounle topics, until bumped out of the way. These are the people who require alten- "<»»- DEVOXPORT DOOKER.