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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1927, Page 3

the Tyrants. I wish, says a writer in an exchange, to add my serious protest to that of Air AI. J. Savage (member for Auckland West), who declared in the House that the increased duty on clocks would affect the working man. I am appalled at the bitterness with winch the Government pursues us. Ten years ago I purchased an alarm clock for ten shillings. It has ticked away ever since, although I have dropped it on the floor and have on occasions had to wind it with a pair of pliers. I found a twisted hairpin useful, too. Hie alarm is just as loud as ever. lhe clock tells the time almost to the tick. In the course of wear and tear this clock must cease. T look forward to | that time with alarm, with consterna- | tion with pain’. Am T. a plain working ninti pursued by ruthless Tories, to have my small income raided by a ruthless' State? Are my children to be bereft of bread and my wife to wander shoeless in the water-table? Am I to face the unimaginable horror of paying eleven-n nd-sixpence for a new clock. Down with the tyrants!