LEST WE FORGET!

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 179, 14 July 1927, Page 9

LEST WE FORGET!

(Contributed by M.R.H.) There’s so much talk going on just now, intended to-record The deeds of Mayors in the past, upon the Honours Board, That I’d hke to add a little, and poetically, say A thing or two upon this head, ’ere interest dies away, For Burgesses are apt to let The matter drop, and so forget. We really should remember them, these men who in the past, Made Hastings what it is to-day, and worked like slaves to cast The dies to mould the town upon the lines that it should bear; We ought to build a monument to show them that we care, For Burgesses are apt to let The matter drop, and so forget. Do you remember every day, when at five you ‘‘shut up shop” That Mr Williams gave the chimes which tell you when to stop? And if your house is burning down, and you’re able to count ten. Just do so, and remember —Oh please remember then The good old days of long ago, when Mr Miller laid The Stone to .found the Station of the local Fire Brigade. For Burgesses are apt to let The matter drop, and so forget. Now a word to all the Mothers in this city of the plain: Be pleased to bear in mind the fact which means much to your gain When you’re footsore, tired and weary. Mr Ebbett did a lot, To give you all a place to rest—but then, you all forgot His yeoman work on your behalf to give you all, the best In his Russell Street Extension, where you have the Mothers’ Rest. For Burgesses are apt to let The matter drop, and so forget. We are charged w’ith lapse of memory, and what I ask is, “Why Are we said to have forgotten wljat men in years gone by, Did for the Town of Hastings?” You may bet your last lone bob That we appreciate their work, and the way they did their job. So discontiuo all this talk of Mayoral deeds of yore We asked them just to do their best (And. since they did it, let it rest) THAT’S WHAT A MAYOR IS FOR 1