WE WILL HAVE TO GO BY AIR.
BY SINBAD. Did you ever ride a bike up on Papanui Road, where each pothole that you strike (and a million there they’ve stowed) throws you yards into the air, whence you come to earth once more, if you haven't watched with care, bumped and bruised and somewhat sore. Have you ever seen the mud that is strewn in Mowbray Street, where you're bound to come a thud if you dare to trust your feet, where your clothes get in a mess if you do not. walk on stilts, and, in fact, the sanest dress is a highland piper’s kilts? Did you ever drive a car on the road to Riccarton and get reasonably far ere. a spring went like a gun, whereupon you gave a curse fit to turn the meadows brown, and a passing motor hearse came and towed 3-ou into town? Oh, the main suburban streets are a thing to make one blue and my mind it fairly beats what the local bodies do, for if things don’t swiftly mend, then the chances are, it’s plain, we our way will have to wend by balloon or aeroplane.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17905, 22 July 1926, Page 1
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