WAKE UP, AUCKLAND!

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13502, 29 July 1907, Page 7

WAKE UP, AUCKLAND!

Sir, —.Now that Wellington Ana Auckland aro about, to be brought into closo direct loucn by ran, toe brt e;',e vt the brec-jsy city is already launiiig me <«cett of AucKiauti, merchants ana manufacturer®. • Tito cutterunto in tao gait oi pcittrt&mus in the tno cities ts most marked." .-vuuKiatut does ' not hustle. Wellington Du.-tici—anu yets there. Climatic conditions cannot wholly account lor tins mnerence. AueUiamt s i-ulatwii uinl consequent partial freedom trout cuntpetition lias !>rmui«ti indolent habits. Tito i row it ot people streaming hint Auckland between nine una ten o'clock o\ef.v morning to business stream into Wellington between eight', and nine. I can get no one here to keep 'appointment*). • The? don't care even to make them. Lotpunetual customers wttslwmore t>( my time than I employ. It is amazing to -itiemrprehoiuibie. It is neither moral nor lnismu*s-iiki». But they don't apologise; I suppose it if« " quite th*» thing." It 1 call on it i'usine.-i- man the ease i-> not much better, If ho is engaged, lie i- interminably so. M'.v turn at 1 ar-1. come-. }!n-ine»- fini-li<'<l. 1 cannot •ret away, must Mtto'ce ami 'chat. Eventually 1 bad; o.;r, and, examining in . watch. am astonished at the time wasted. 1 cannot, coin t a city, wither am I iojlldi enough to "run my head again « stone wall," bus a change will come; if no!, the "premier" city will inevitably succumb to- the " Empi to- " city Ex Wki.U.v«:tus.