The Scribbling Scribe

Northland Age, Volume 6, Issue 29, 9 April 1937, Page 1

The Scribbling Scribe

(CONTRIBUTED) ———■ If our present windy weather keeps up, Kaitaia will soon have as bad a reputation as Windy Wellington. It certainly blew great guns this week. * * * * f Now that Mangonui is assured of w its wharf, there is talk in that city of making representations to PanAmerican Airways, pointing out the great advantages of making Mangonui the New Zealand terminus of the airway from America. The Mangonui people rightly point to their splendid harbour with its fine sheltered waterways, as an ideal seaplane base. They also point out that although their young sister city of the west, Kaitaia, may pinch many things from the east it cannot take the harbour. * * * * The Kaitaia Town Board turned their big guns on the financial forces of New Zealand this week when it despatched the mayor, the deputymayor and the town clerk to beard these financial blood suckers in their own dens, and make them disgorge enough of their ill-gotten gains so that Kaitaia can have enough water for a bath now and again, as ordered by the health inspector. The guns were successful and brought back the booty. » * * * “To speak before all men or to hide our light under a bushel, to open our doors or to speak behind closed doors?” Such was the problem that faced the Oruru Dairy Company directorate, in regard to the extraordinary meeting of shareholders held this week. The doors were closed.