VAGRANT VERSE

Southland Times, Issue 22009, 8 May 1933, Page 6

VAGRANT VERSE

THE ORETI ANTHOLOGY. 498. —Mount Cook. (Written for the Southland Times.) ■ Massey was northern Irishman And Seddon came from Lancashire, So take a note and make a plan All you who would to heights aspire. And Mount Cook with its many feet Is no great height in politics, Although it causes much defeat And has a dozen nasty tricks. It is a mountain frozen over With placid crown of vestal snow, It calls the boastful alpine rover, And shows him where he ought to go. But to the field so flat and plain Where men cast votes and win or lose Mount Cook can waft no cold disdain Nor can it clarify its views. But it looks on and feels secure, And knows when strife and man are done, It will be still a white allure Lifting its helmet to the sun. —Southerner. Invercargill, May 8, 1933. “I think it is right and proper that the Government should be approached with a view to reducing the charges of rural telephones,” said Mr A. Melville, at a recent meeting of the Wanganui branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, when speaking in support of a remit from Fordell, which had for its aim the reduction of rural telephone charges. Mr A. Stuart, M.P., for Rangitikei, had been approached in the matter, and he had urged that all branches should take the question up so that the Dominion executive could go to Parliament with a unanimous appeal.