Lest We Forget

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 157, 19 June 1935, Page 8

Lest We Forget

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Would you kindly allow me a little space in your valuable paper- regarding the clock tower. I, as a citizen, was surprised to see the foundations dug out, and that our City lathers find a well there, sunk certainly before my time, and now we are going back another 30 feet. I hear children used to bathe in a certain tank, also the Eire Brigade used to suck the water out of the same tank. The clock tower on the site now chosen, instead of being an ornament to the town, will be the laughing stock of Hawke’s Bay. It should be inscribed on the foundation stone “Our City Bathers’ Folly, 1935,” lest we forget. It looks like at present we have plenty of money in hand, seeing we are getting about £5OOO a year for 27 years to come, when the Health Department comes along and demands of our City Fathers to put our sewerage straight out to sea. Those are the things which make one think, and think twice. I am not against the clock tower or over the cost of same if the tower was placed in a position where it would he an ornament to the town, but I am against wasting good money on the present site, where it is supposed to be built, and next to an old out-of-date lavatory. I consider it is time for somebody more able than I am to take this matter up and prevent any more money being wasted in this direction. —Y’ours, etc., “PROGRESS.” Hastings, June 18, 1935.