PROPOSED NEW SITE FOR HARBOUR.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18016, 3 November 1920, Page 4

PROPOSED NEW SITE FOR HARBOUR.

SECTIONS WITH WATER FRONTAGE FOR SALE. BOATING! FISHNG! BATHING! I built of .late, on a college estate, a dear little maisonette, with plaster walls and rimu halls, and furnished it all for Bet. Beggin’ your pardon, our little garden, planted by Betty and me, not one in the street is half so neat, for we leve the work, d’ye see! I’m up in the dawn to mow the lawn, and Bet, she’s after slugs; from Monday morn till Sunday's born we’re swattin’ the garden bugs. An open Spring, and never a thing, to worry a gardener’s brain; we had no duds among the spuds—and then it began to rain. The section’s fiat, and as to that, it’s well below sea level; the hens are drown’d, and so’s the hound, who’s howling like the devil. For- frogs to spawn on the croquet lawn, where blow the water cresses; to be kept awake by the croak and crake of frogs in Betty’s dresses, is hard to bear for a tidy pair, as Betty and I agreed; and this is a song of dampest wrong, that he who swims may read.

If I built to date on a college estate, I’d build a Noah’s ark. and cast a line, in fathoms nine, and blithely fish for shark. I’d need a dredge to trim the hedge, a job for Rubi Seddons; and if are found my hens and hound, the “Board” can kee pthe dead ’uns. All papers note that a Union boat tied up to my summer arbor; there ain’t no bar, and there you are, for a deep and tranquil harbour. I’ve sold of late, on a college estate, a dear little maisonette, with water front and fishing punt, vacated bv me and Bet. —D.H.L.