BOTTLE-BREAKERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 197, 23 August 1935, Page 6

BOTTLE-BREAKERS

SENTIMENTS OF ALL GODD MOTORISTS. The following verse of striking and appropriate value, was published not long ago in Punch, and has been reproduced by Air. AV. A. O’Callaghan, president of the North Island (N.Z.) Motor Union in his annual report which is to be presented at the annual meeting in New Plymouth today : (Dedicated to those picnicker}, who must leave broken glass about. > If ever I lived on an island and the island belonged to me, I would throw it open to all the world and make tin* entry free, And those who liked should ha\ e picnic lunch and follow with picnic But those people who broke bottles should be pitchforked into the sea. If I were king of an island I would issue imperial writs Completely abolishing money and call ing outstandings quits: AVe’d take in each other's washing and we’d live by signing chits; But people who broke bottles should be made to roll on the bits. If I wore to own an island and rule as that island’s head, I’d see that my stoniest subjects had a jolly goud Bunday spread; I would close al| courts and prisons and have nice little pubs instead; But people who broke bottler should take broken glass to bed. I don’t own any island and doubtless I never shall, But grass is a pleasant playground when holiday seasons call; So, people w’ho break their bottles where little folk may fall. Will you please never to do it —no not do it at. all?