WINDY WELLINGTON.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2195, 15 October 1913, Page 2

WINDY WELLINGTON.

Nobody seems to know now who invented the story about Wellington people always holding on their hats as they go round corners, but tho. imaginative author certainly did something to advertise New Zealand. The tale has been told and re-told in every corner of the globe. It made its reappearance in London tho other week when an .Australian claimed proudly that his '"coo-ec" would evoke a reply in practically any part of the world.* 'Tf you see a man walking along the Strand," said a writer who had noticed the Australian's boast, "and, though a breeze does not stir the air, he involuntarily holds his hat firmly to his head whenever he comes to a street corner, you should greet him with the question: "Well, and how are things in Wellington?" Thereupon he will fall upon your neck as a fellow-New Zealander in London. For in Wellington tho winds are so tempestuous that the habit of holding the hat firmly to one's head when passing a side street becomes second nature, and proclaims the man from Wellington all over the world." It is almost a pity that so excellent a tale should not be quite true (says the Dominion). To which we would add that it is the stranger in "Wellington who holds his hat on. The Wellingtonian wears his hat so that it won't blow off.