AN ACT OF DISLOYALTY.

NZ Truth, Issue 392, 28 December 1912, Page 4

AN ACT OF DISLOYALTY.

The Chrls-tchurch gas monopoly is a blight upon the community m more senses than one. Not only is it entitled to adopt the role of footpad and call upon the city to stand and deliver, bui the gas leakage from Its improperlylaid pipes Is poisoning the soil ovar a large area. The magnificent plantation m Fitzgerald- avenue has been ruined m spots by this cause, and cannot be re-planted m the gas-impregnated subsoil, and after bluffing? In a scandalous manner, the unspeakable monopoly consented to i>ay something towards the irreparable damage. The community Is so used to victimisation by me commercial beast, that .this last outrage was taken lying down. News i haa just been received, however, wh.ch should arousothd populace to open rebellion. The oak planted In 3 commemorate the union of bdward VII. and Princess Alexandra is GASPING ITS Lira OUT through root contact with poisonous « and expert opinion says that Its poUlo m oookod or to» acorn U* routed. This I* the kurt-slmw. NoiwUtatand. ing a local boodle nut's wcepful appeal to exercise caution and thmk of the< initial expense, the City Council the other night indorsed with great enthusiasm tho favorable report of Ha eonBiiltlnp engineer upon the hj'dro-elee-Jric VorKs'ivt 1-Ute Coleridge for tha generation of light and power m C'hrlstehurch. and Iho. Inhabitants view tho indorcsmcnt with pleasure. Cnnu>rbury can't stand an Insult to the Tlrronc. W^W, th* destruction of. ibat <rco la an act of DISLfOYAI/rY,