THOSE UGLY GUNS.
BY SINBAD. Our noble councillors I cheer, for they’ve made up their minds to see that from all war-time relics drear our city henceforth shall be free. “ These guns,” exclaim the Labourites, “ that stand around the riverbank are harmful and disgusting sights, and smack of military swank, for, as the kids around them play, war pastimes they to them suggest. From that it’s but a little way, ere they’ll be fighting with the best.” The council on a scheme has chanced to make our optics much less sore. The cause of beauty they’ve advanced more than the cause of " no more war.” But whither shall these cannon go which make the councillors so hot, for our museum cannot show a room that would contain the lot? A Papanui friend comes forth this new emergency to meet. Says he: “They ought to send them north to patch the potholes in my street.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18406, 7 March 1928, Page 9
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