HONE ON GENERAL TOPICS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2257, 31 March 1921, Page 2

HONE ON GENERAL TOPICS

Tenakoe, Mitte Edita. Good morning, Hone. Have you enjoyed the holidays'? l’y kripe, I link te long lioriday t’is time, isn’t it? Ewerypodv been to races, in te train, te motor car ride, te pictures, and all te time te noospaper and te Gowenncnt talk a pout te hard time ahead and no money. All te bally humabug! Where all te money gone? Some one newer dig te big hole and bury le money, is it ? Where te money—who get it? When Hone see all tis ting I talkin’ apout I link te Goworment and te noospaper got to blind eye, or might he he te roonatik.

Well, Hone, I’m afraid you have not had the opportunity of studying economics, the causes which lead up to the rise and fall of the world’s markets, industrial upheavals, the waste of war. the movement of the world’s great pendulum. You are a happy child of Nature — Py kripe! I not te child —te bally kid! Better you look out might I gif you te smack down. I dunno what you talkin’ pout te konomic, but I read te noospaper, and Hone look wit his eye, and not his belly. If te people got no money, and te bad time, why he go te races, te picture show, te train, take te lioriday, buy te noo clothes? Ail'lc bally humabug. If he hard up he newer do rat, is it? Te Gowerment and te noospaper he frighten for te lazy man.

You believe, Hone, in the saying that man shall live by the sweat of his brow, eh? Tat it. If ewerybody work, nobody hard up. Te heepi werry cheap now, but te mutton dear. My brudder terra me tat te heepi sell for two bob each. Werra, why Boh charge le missis five boh for te one leg mutton? Py korry, I don’t like tat, and Poukama terra me ic Hour go up again. Py korry, I fink te pukeko and te tuna te best kai.

1 peon having le korero wit Peter apout te Maori queen. I link te Maori queen gif you pakeha peoples te big run at le finish. Werra, newer, mind which queen be win so long we. get te money fix up te cemetery wit to noo fence and footpath. Potaka and Matin must hook te horse up in nother place then, isn’t it? Yes, that’s true, Hone.

Afy wurra, te noo pleeceman, he te werry kind man. Aty mate he worry tire and lay down on te side of te road, and Mitta Owen he say, “Here, Timi, come long wit me—l gif you te ped and breakfus, and only charge you five bob.” Tat te only one I know not te plofiteer! Oh, T nearly forget to terra you pout te two punt load of machinery at te wliarve. You mean the dredge, Hone? Oh, werra, I say pout tat nex time. After he make te start work, I ask for te job, and te boss terra me no room on hoard for anyting more, full up, and 1 Link he quite right. You know te best land in Foxton? No, Hone, where is it?

Norpiton Road. He run four cow and three horse nearly ewery day on one long acre. Enoho ra ! Haere ra, Hone!