RE COLLEGE LANDS AND FLOODS.
May I express to D.H.L. A little word in season, Unless he wants to go to blank, Let him with ryhme blend reason.
Exigency of rhyme no doubt Must handicap the poet, Still, fact is fact and none should shout Unless the man who knows it.
Some parts of College land lie low And others, more, are high lands; When storms the rain it happens so You find there lakes and islands.
But mark the truth, ’tis very sure, In fact you may go Nap on’t, With deepened Churton’s Creek a sewer No flooding could have happened-
Even now the sandy subsoil slakes The water up like winking. The Godwin and the Selwyn lakes Are visibly seen shrinking. Let D.H.L. take courage and Buy back his maisonette, And healthily on College land He’ll live along with pretty Bet. —J.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18018, 5 November 1920, Page 4
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144RE COLLEGE LANDS AND FLOODS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18018, 5 November 1920, Page 4
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