The Village Settlement.
— ♦— " Woomera " in the Australasian thus clothes in rhyme the views of one of the oity " unemployed " on the. Village Settlement scheme— I want a place where corn aud wine and hoil Is burstin' up promiscuous from the noil ; Where hens and turkeys run about iv j freedom, And no one ain't a troubled for to feed *_«_ . 'em; Where cows prodooces butter, milk or ! cheese. j Juat all accordin' to the teat you squeeze ; j Where calves are never born but only oxes, ' And fruit grows dried and packed in little '■ boxes ; j Where " all wool goods " straight from tlio j sheep is taken, j And rashers planted springs np 'ams and ' bacon ; i Where Government spends all that must | be spent, j And at the prop, r time remits tlie rent, j And follerin' out the principles as we hold, ! Finally gives a man his little freehold. ,
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Manawatu Herald, 29 September 1892, Page 3
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150The Village Settlement. Manawatu Herald, 29 September 1892, Page 3
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