KILLING AND SPENDING TIME.
■‘II you succeed in beating your swords into ploughshares are you quite certain you will bo able to liml work for your phougnshares? Picture induces and football matches are glorious pastimes to kill time, but I do not know that they teach you. to spend ii,” said Mr Augustine Pirrell in a speech repoited in the •'Daily Telegraph” deli veod on his eightieth birthday. “We are often told that we live in an age of class animosity, hut is that .so? Ap there no signs-of the consolidation of society? The rich no longer sit entrenched behind their money hags. In fact, they are now far humbler than those who are called poor. As for the poor, they are beginning to learn the gieat economic truth that the solution of poverty is not to he found in plunder. After nil. if you want to plunder you have to he sure there is somethin" to plunder. We have come now, I think, to realise that ii is not gold in the bank that is the solution of poverty. but credit combined with industry.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1930, Page 3
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185KILLING AND SPENDING TIME. Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1930, Page 3
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