CORRESPONDENCE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1921, Page 12

CORRESPONDENCE

BRITHEE SCOTS

(To the Editor.)

Sir,— 'Why is it that,' in the plethora of societies and associations of Old Boys, Veterans, West Coasters, Otagoites and the line, there is no placo for a Caledonian Society P Almost every other week there is a re-union or similar gathering of these bodies, but apparently you Scotsmen in and around our town have forgotten that you are Scotsmen. Hare you so far forgotten the smack of your mother tongue that you take no delight in it? Have you so far given up the reading of Scottish ! poetry that our Immortal Bard, Sir I Walter Scott, Tannabil, and a dozen others moke no appeal to you? R&vo lyour ears been ao filled with jazz music (?) that "The Auld House,'1 "Annio Mbaurie," or "A Hundred Pipers'* leave .you untouched. For shame, freens! i With lusty branches of the St. Andrew's (Society at New Plymouth and Stratford, it says little for Scotia's sons ,in South Taranaki that they cannot set apart at least one evening each year for !a "quid Scotch nicht," the skirl of tho j bagpipes, and a crack. Will not Borae representative Scot take the matter up ;*4P<l call the clans together?-—I am, •etc.,

THE SON OF AN ABERDONIAN