The
lakes at Moneague even appeared in a Gleaner cartoon in 1934, about some now long-forgotten municipal
issue; six members of the K.S.A.C.* (three Black, one Brown, two White?) are shown urging the unfortunate Mayor, Sir
George Seymour Seymour, to jump into the 'Colleague Lakes' where the 'Water Board' is bobbing on the surface. The Mayor is
secured by a rope around his neck (he is wearing a very fashionable swim suit!) and his colleagues are shouting 'Jump Off
Georgie! If yo born fe heng, yo can’t drown; if yo born fe drown, yo can’t heng!!'
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Daily Gleaner June 9, 1934 |
* Kingston and St Andrew Corporation
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