THINGS OLD AND NEW.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14326, 11 April 1912, Page 10

THINGS OLD AND NEW.

_T° TOE EDITOR OF "THK PKKSS."--i -!>"- you throw any light on tin* pxisifnco or di'iith ol" tho Old Colonists' .-MiciPty? | t , vaSi i believe, formed to proservo things nnd liappcninjzs affoctmjr.the very early rears of tho Canterbury si'ttloinont. and nii-ht, -vitli good ri-ason. bo vigorously supported by the sous and daii--ht.-rs of tho.«*arlv colonists to kei*p in remembrance tho reasons «], v certain things wero done. In your to-day's' issuo you report that the .St. Martin's Jlurfrosse-i' Aksoeintion is taking steps to have Wilson's road named Parson's road. Old colonists know the said rond w.is in existence fifty years n»o: that it formed the eastern boundary of the lato Archdeacon Wilson's 00-iiero' section taken up from the Canterbury "settlement, extending from that portion of Opawa road via Gasworks road to tho. river . Heatheoto, and that the Archdeacon had a residence on it, at the .southern end for many years.

The original section <o0 acres) was subdivided in 187-t, and at tlio'samu timo the old Wilson's road ivns widened out. That is thirty-eight years since, long enough suroly to claim a coutiniK'd existence* by name. I have personal recollection' of the road, as AA'ilson's road, or Wilson- Bridge road, for nearly fifty years, and am of opinion that, as a Jink with the • past, there should be no change to Parson's road. And why Parson's road ? Is the proposal made because of its having been Parson Wilson's road, or to bring into prominence some ambitious present resident of the district?

Wake up, ye old colonists, and save yet another.of our old associations from elimination.—Yours, etc.. , ~ OLD-CHUM. April 10th.