DO DROP IN

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28543, 24 March 1958, Page 10

DO DROP IN

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Some say that future Travellers by Air would J?, uc . drop in jet-propeljed at Harewood; It s nice and flat for Miles, and is adjacent To Christchurch, prosperous, English and complacent. Tourists who on the Canterbury Plain land (Some do contend) touch down upon the MainlandSomewhere offshore, they speak of the Existence Of a North Island, hazy in the Distance— An over-populated Place, a Jungle Where Debt-collectors thrive, where Councils bungle. Where Aucklanders dream dreams of Grandeur, Braving eve F w ake till Someone else is paying; Tneir City always in’the Red, though populous. And trying hard to look like a Metropulous! —The World meanwhile, obliviously rotating Cduldn t care less whose Airport gets the Rating, Whether the Tourist’s first fine careless Photo Is of Cathedral Square, or Rangitoto, the Jets his Feet upon the Earth place hometown or Sid Holland’s birthplace, Whether the happiest Landings are the Northernmost Or Harewood of all Airports suits them More than most If it was Me (Sir, that’s what I call Grammar), I couldn t choose between the Two, for Glamour Geographer who know their Stuff, can map it All And prove that Auckland’s furthest from the Capital, Which might be flnaL were not Christchurch from Wellington by Sea—we’re where we started! Itell you What! Reclaimed Land in Cook Strait’s The Place to land them.—Do it at the State's Expense, thus saving Christchurch Pride and Auckland Rates.