A WORD PICTURE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 15 August 1928, Page 6

A WORD PICTURE.

PRETTY BUT INACCURATE,

HAjWERA’S “SUPREME COURT.”

'As tile centre of an important dairy - ing district Hawera is sometimes mentioned in the news columns of the Pres® in other part® of New Zealand, but it Inis been left to a weekly paper to bring this town before the notice of leaders elsewhere on purely aesthetio grounds. An (article in last week’s issue of a Wellington weekly paints a pretty picture of tiie isiirroibn of ‘ ‘.HiaiweTla, Supreme Court,” with its purntus, kowliais and pollutakawas and goes on to explain that the grass plot in front of the conrt 'house remains unfenced because Sir Charles Skerrett was so pleased with its appeamnee after thia I'enoas .had been leveled iby a gale that he ordered their permanent removal. The writer, who lias muck more to say on the theme of ‘‘plan, wo never so wisely, accident may guide our rate, has evidently heard a part of the story, and hals drawn on unreliable sources to fill in the gaps. . , It is true that there is an unfenoed lawn fronting, the court (house and that growing thereon are some fine specimens of native trees, but Hawera does not possess Supreme Court buddings—at cannot oven induce the Supreme Court to sit in the Magistrate’® Court-house, despite the attractions of the lawn and the trees, where, to quote the Wellington weekly, “litigants may cool the ardour of their dispute® or waiting iurynien temper their findings with a rider of mercy.” Neither has Sar • ! mrles Skerrett ever visited. Hiawera m his capacity as Chief Justice. There are nature - lovers here who could tell the author of the Wellington effusion quite an interesting story about the trees—lhow they were planted about dU years ago, in the days of the old district Court, by Judge Kettle, and how the citizens rose: an their indignation and asked the Justice pepartment to “spare those trees,'.’ when there was a plan afoot to apply the woodman a axe —and it could be told l baotf y, without mentioning a “Supreme Court, ■ which does not exist, thus obviate* ,any unnecessary harrowing of the teotiniis of the local) (branch, of tlie UaW .Society.