THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
The Cyci.es Or Palaver. “AW* think of some of the benefits that follow the train of great events. Words accumulate, phrases multiply and are handed about from mouth to mouth, from one leading article to another, from on*- Foreign Office to another, until they become as greasy as a bundle of Scotch one-pound notes in the slimy pocket of a Highland drover. A<-:i3s of rubbishy talk, fnrets of futile palaver, obscuring the heavens, obstructing the path—then suddenly something really happens, one of Disraeli’s great events, and away it goes, -and is heard of no more; and we all begin again, and at once, chattering as busily as ever, but afresh; covering the empty .sites, replanting the cleared forests, handing about new one-pound notes, until, in the fullness of time, another great event reverlwr ates through -the- world, land once again what has by that- time become rubbish is shot into limbo.” —Afr Augustine BirroH.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1926, Page 2
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158THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1926, Page 2
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