FROM OUR READERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 19

FROM OUR READERS

•BRIGHTER WELLINGTON

'-'CTo'thc Editor -of the "Big Tree

Bulletin.")

' Sir. —-Passing down "Cuba Street, it struck;■ me that'AVellington' has lost much- of its oldtime gaiety. Lamblon Qpy, is-dingy as a morgue, Government -Buildings arc gloomy arid grey, nnclfho'drje lauglis in AVillis Street Ts this 'the town, I thought, of which Ellal Wheeler Wilcox wrote "Earth lialli not anything to show more fair,"* of which George Wallace cried "It w;is roses, roses all the way"?|As practical hints for brightening nur solemn city, I suggest that the Town Hall be painted True Blue, and the columns of the'portico, instead of .'ihowing the grey stone, should be made to represent Big Tree Pumps. The brightening of our policemen's millinery was a step in the right direction, but not far enough. Cpaild no one design them a daring uniform of pink musljn, caught up at the hip with a simple garland of True Blue rosettes? I am, etc., ■■' . . IDA NIDEA. 'Incorrect.—Ed. , t Incorrect.—Ed.