NEW “KISSING" GATE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11453, 2 March 1931, Page 5

NEW “KISSING " GATE

LOVERS’ RIGHTS PROTECTED

LONDON, Dec. 31. .: Lovers’, rights are still protected in the country. .

• London, councils may unparadise the park's,, but the urban district council of Bungay, in Suffolk, Sees to it that its young men and maidens are properly . provided with dark lanes- to wander; in and “kissing;gates-’ to sit on and consider the Suffolk moon. - It even called a meeting to discuss the overgrown condition of the traditional love lane beyond the little town arid to vote for the restoration at the council’s expense—of the locally famous .“kissing gate,” broken down at last by decades of country lovemaking. •

.Not that, .at first gjapce, One would suspect Rof the council, . Hid'venerable company sitting in .the Oddfellows’ Hall ■on the gatos-for-lovors question was composed of a maltster, a pastrycook, a leather merchant, an ironmonger, a wine merchant, a hank manager,, an agricultural implement maker and a retired pork, butcher.’ .Between them, it seems they' produce a sufficiency of cakes and alo lo givo them a syfhpaihy with youth. ■ Besides, Suffolk is a kissing cotmtry, and.has as many lovers’ lanes as water mills. The lovo lane at Bungay is.more than a mile from the prim village street. It i 9 dim at. midday, with overhanging trees, and theold gate has become terribly senile, I t ’’ ’ ' f ‘ .-'• ' , . v • r • - V r ‘• ’ v •. '■ '■