BREAD, GAS AND SMOKE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 June 1932, Page 9

BREAD, GAS AND SMOKE

(To the Editor)

Sir, — They say Nelson’s a sunny spot and

much to be admired, VVliero dogs lean up against the. fence to baric, they are so tired, Tho people basic out in Uie sun and dream and snooze all day, 15ut nothing can disturb tho oven tenor of their way.

P.ut let these cranks who try to make Nelsonians a joke. Just read “The Mail” discussions about the bread, and gas and smoke. These scoffers will, perforce, then own, we stick up for our rights And know the value of our town and lovely mud-flat sites.

Oh! what a pity it would bo to spoil our mud-flat view. Of the sewer and tho tip-head, the penny winkles too; For in a hundred years or three a playground it could be, Where we could watch the children romp from our old cemetery.

Now smoke is just the industry to help the world along, If women and children smoke they’ll grow robust and strong. Even so, to build at our front door would mean we’d come a thud, For what’s more pleasing to the eye, than a lovely stretch of mud.

And as for bread, I’ll guarantee that in a few short years, The price will come down with a thud in spito of all their jeers. But vvliat is sixpence on a ioaf x a mere detail—though How often have we heard it said, that bakers need the dough.

And as for gas, we.get a lot for nothing in this town, But Mr Griffin's busy dotting lots of figures down. Long ere our babies reach old age, and start to growl and grant, Our gas and electricity will come down with a bump.

Nelsonians are not so slow as some outsiders think, Wc know just where the gas plant and the freezing works won’t stink. We Tiuild our public Hospitals on quite a busy site, Where the traffic keeps the patients from snoozing half the night.

Some say that Nelson’s the only town that hasn’t felt the slump, And when we get a real earthquake, it’s quite a decent bump. We do things when we're put to it we stand tho acid test By writing to our daily “Mail,” and then we need a rest.

To build tobacco factories we all should understand, It is a waste of energy and good productive land: To say it’s a good industry is nothing but a joke, For the manufactured articles must all end up in SMOKE.

I’m pot preaching you a sermon. I think you’ll all agree If folks make chimneys of their mouths it matters not to me. Nelson will make lots of cash, so build your factory; But in the long ran all must pay for wasted energy. —I am, etc., G.L.C. Nelson, 18th June.