CORNWALL STREET

Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 December 1926, Page 3

CORNWALL STREET

v A COMPLAINT. Far live and forty years L’vc paid My rates with promptitude: My gas accounts were ne’er delayed , But quickly were made good. For h\e and forty years have I Resided in this town, But never had a footpath dry io walk on up or down. Ever I've had to wade through gras's, ftfhen it grew rank in spring, Heavy with dew whene’er wo pass. To which the raindrops cling. It drenches ladies’ silken hose Till they look like a rag; Cold feet they get. colds in the* nose, And coughs that fairly fag. Last summer 1 was told, 1 mind, That Cornwall Street would be Attended to, nor left behind. 1 waited patiently. 1 found that in the upper part, On both sides' of the road, To form a path they made a start, Then left the job —I’m blowed! To be- precise, it still appears I ’m in the same position I 'vo held for five and forty years— A dam(p) path to perdition. Now, while I’m on poetic stunt It is my fixed intention, In language that is plain and blunt, A cirmucstaiice to mention. Tu Michael Street the road they made. With footpath that was good O! The gas lamp on the corner stayed. Still stands in solitude, O! Right in the middle of the road. Where traffic seldom ceases, There it has stood for months—l’in blowed! - While recklessness increases. Perhaps the Council do but wait Till sonic car comes a cropper. When they pick up the driver state: “He must have been a ‘dropper’.’-’ 'Twas done in Queen Strei\t. long ago, Where lamps stood in rotation. The man who fouled them was not slow In claiming compensation. —J.S., Masterton.