ANOTHER WAIL FROM PORT CHALMERS.

Evening Star, Issue 15035, 18 November 1912, Page 1

ANOTHER WAIL FROM PORT CHALMERS.

c .. T ° THE EDITOR. bir,—Scientists toll us that pure orrem undergoes a remarkable modification wLn a »nes of electric discharge* is pawed through the gas.; it obtains more active properties and possesres a most peculiar smell The nllotropic modification is termed ozone, and its presence is eanlv determined by the blucne.w it imparts to ceitam objects. Well, sir, down here in flounder town (flounders of all sizes and site.-.i, we must have an atmosphere heavily impregnated, with this ozone.itthe present time. Everything appears blue latelv. Even the language ot the residents towards? the borough councillors h;..<; undergone a change, and has completely turned the once stonecomred buildings into a decaded blue. The. iiroma from the harbor has even a distinct blue haze, and possesses a smell characteristic of eggs laid a t, the time when Noah liberated the doves from the ark. The. question is heard on all fides as to what has been the cause of this metamorphosee, and when will it all end. Some blame t.ho visit of Dunedin's electrical engineer a<nd hie threatened invasion in Chalmers territory as the direct cause; others, again, attribute it to swelled civic head and loss of mental balance, on the part of our borough councillors, whom, they assert, have been carried away into the* regions of sublime ridiculousness by the forceful rhetoric of ecme electrical genius. Anyhow, whatever has been the cause, the result is present with us, and the quicker our self-assuring eleven civic guardians realise how futile their efforts? have beer, in all municipal politics to the furtherance of the best interests of Port Chalmers the better for the borough, and get out to make room for more capable representatives.—-I am, etc., Merely a Man. November 16.