FINANCE KILLED A OAT

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 March 1913, Page 2

FINANCE KILLED A OAT

A versifier whose works will be published to New Zealand at no distant date once declaimed metrically about Australia's tendency to pass all lier borrowing burdens oil to posterity. He traced ail analogy -between the ease of bankrupt Egypt and the reekless Australia he. wotted of. and in concluding his metrical diatribe he remarked Quick let tlie gilded moments pass ; right merry shall we be, 'Xeatli .southern skieS we'll make a new Ismalia. For "of" the land- not ''on" it— at the time to foot the bill Will be this generation of Australia! Some similar inspect in the trend and outlook ol young Xew Zealand has forced itself upon the notice of the Feilding Star. That journal, in concluding .some comments upon the financial criticisms of Air (!. W. Russell, concludes as follows .■ — "deferring to the loan of C3.500.n00. lie stated thai, consequent 011 the flotation at I per cent, at 89. the loss to the country would be C 882.000. But who cares? Kveryone want.s to know if you .are going to the races."