WELLINGTON, CITY OF OUR DREAMS

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28234, 23 March 1957, Page 10

WELLINGTON, CITY OF OUR DREAMS

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WHIM WHAM]

T ?«, N S. ni !J er JMr Watte) uid ... he believed the people ot Wellington galnfnrnunh advantage from Ite being the Beat of Government, and he did not think it would be such a vigorous, expanding city If this centre was somewhere else. . . . —News item. 7 Yes, Jack, we know Advantages accrue To Dwellers at the Seat of Government. Its Citizens are privileged how true! You’ve said it, Jack, and I (for once) assent. The Seat, the centric Spot, the Hub, the Heart I Of our great Nation is the Place for Me. Why anyone should choose some other Part To spend his luckless Days in, I can’t see. On Lambton Quay, the common Passer-by May catch a Glimpse of Sid—Ah, there’s Romance To hearten poor plain Lives, to lift the Eye To higher Things, if but for one brief Glance! Think! In some Pub along that Thoroughfare is A Conversation starting now, that may Bring fateful Consequences—say, that Dairies Shall sell Sardines upon the Sabbath Day. Think once again! Those Homburgs may betoken A Gathering of the Corps Diplomatique From which, who knows what hot News may be broken—? Cocktails at the Embassy next Week! Think on, you Jokers! Think of all those Head Offices by which your random Lives are schooled: Cricket or H-Bomb Tests, your daily Bread Your Drink, your Sleep, your All, from Here are ruled: From Here, the Hub, the Heart, the Height the Seat, The Shantytown of State, Zelania’s Joy, The Yes-man’s Shangri-La, the No-man’s Beat Indeed, a capital City, Jack, my Boy!