PUBLIC OPINION

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 48, 12 March 1937, Page 7

PUBLIC OPINION

. MOCK

TURTLE

_ / 'AUCE ASKS QUfSTIONS (To tho Editor» Alico had been ansious about the white rabbit's doings lately. He had been heeping very quiet, aind beyond telling th© people at Hom© what a wonderful place New Zealand was and how th© butter grower was given £18 per ton mor§ than -the Lonuqn price, and how he was going jho dq the same for both wool and wheat, he had really done very little. Father William hgd certaijily said that there would b© no commandeer of wool and naeat, but Alice thought, lThat's the same old eyewash he used about th© excbange and saies tax before the election," The dqrmouse, however, pn being pinched, said, "There isn't any." "Any what?" she asked. "Any unemployinent," said the dormouse sleepily. "When is unemploymept not unem^ ployment, Dormouse dear?" asked Alico. Said he, "When its sustenapce, of course " Good! Now v/ake him again "When, is a wheelbarrow?" "You must ask th© King of Spades that." "It's too simple for me. Try Father William." You are old Father Williarp, the younger man sworo, And you promised us prices would ease. Yet the milk pnd the groeeries jump mor© and more. Pray answer that oue, if you please? You are old Father WiUiam, said the younger Enzed, And you promised Ua iuwer exchanges, Yet you've been in the saddle for 12 months and more, You'r© surely not frightened to change jt?. You are old Father Wjlliam, said th© youth with an air, You'r© really most terribly fpnny; But you're buildmg npw railwaya and spending galore, Pray, where are you getting the money ? In iny youth, said the sage, as he pulled up his sox, 1 I learnt economics my sopny, From Douglas and others, qne guinea the box, Don't you know, "we can always print money." — Yours. etc..

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