IN LIQUIDATION

Southland Times, Issue 17348, 20 May 1913, Page 5

IN LIQUIDATION

A correspondent, driven to rhyme, and possibly other excesses, by his contemplation of affairs municipal, sends this which is published as a ■ warning to others - We start a reclamation scheme To make a prison farm In the centre of our city And add greatly to its charm. Though we badly need a jetty, Our coastal trade to keep, We start work at the other side And the Council goes to sleep. We want a costly sewage scheme To drive disease away— And go in for electric trams. Though we knew they wouldn’t pay. We want a real good water scheme To make the sewage run; And thirty thousand's spent in pipes Though still no water’s come. But we’ll gladly pay the interest On our loans and never croak. While the Council spends more money Poking round a gravel soak. There's no doubt the matter’s urgent; Still, still there is no stint of rain. And the paper correspondence Gives us water on the brain. A suggestion on the question, Will receive your greatest thanks — "Roof in a block of Dee street And supply yourselves with tanks.”