THE GREY STATUE.
Sir,—ln order that certain motorists may get. a clear unobstructed run at upper Queen Street to enable them to take that gradient at 30. or 40 miles an hour they would agitate to get our only city statue removed. Could they-have their way our thoroughfares would be: simply \ •'speedways" from which pedestrians would be' excluded altogether;. / When such cities as Buenos Aires, Bqirie; Paris, not to say London, remove all statues and decorative trees from their squares and streets it will be time enough to discusa removing that of our greatest Governor from its present place of honour. Happily pedestrians are still more numarous than; motorists. Therefore let them exercise their majority rights and put a stop to this running people down by travelling a£ outrageous speeds (such as are not tolerated- in the streets of the big American cities), and the disfiguring by removing everything ornamental. O.; Sedgwick.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18173, 19 August 1922, Page 7
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