HE COULDN’T REDUCE HIS OVERDRAFT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2856, 10 March 1925, Page 2

HE COULDN’T REDUCE HIS OVERDRAFT.

The following is the copy of a letter in answer to a Bank Manager’s request to his client, asking him to reduce his overdraft :—r

Dear Sir, —For the following reasons I regret being unable to reduce my overdraft : I have been held up, held down, .sandbagged, walked on, sat on, llaltened out, and squeezed. Income Tax, Super Tax, Excess Profits Tax, War Loans, War Bonds War Saving Certificates, Motor Tax etc., and every Society and Organisation that the inventive mind of men can invent has been turned on to extract, what I may or may not have in m;y possession. file Red Cross, Blue Cross. Black Cross, Double Cross, St. Dunstan's .■ml the Children's Homes, the Y.M. C.A., YAA’.C.A., Salvation Army, Austrian Relief, and every Hospital in I lie town and country have all dimned for subscriptions and donations.

The Government has governed m\ business so that 1 don’t know who owns it. I am inspected, suspected, examined, and re examined, infer mod, required and commutated, so that I don’t know who t am, what 1 am, where I am, or uh\ 1 am here ai all.

All I know is thnl I am supposed to lie an inexha list pile supph ol money for ever\ known desire 01 hope of the human taco, and be cause I will not hum! out alt that l have and go and beg, borrow ami .steal money to give aw in, t am cussed, discussed, boycotted, talk eti to and talked about, and bed to as well, held up, hung up, robbed and d near ruined amt the only reason why t am clinging to life at alt is to see what the hell happens next, --Yours faithfully