“How do you account for a surplu s if the Government are short of money ? ’
asked Mr T. Parsons at Mr Hogg’s meeting recently at Eketahuna. “I am not in the secrets of the Cabinet, but I think 1 can answer the question. It is a well-known arithmetical puzzle, very easily solved "if you only know it. You think of a number mean the balance or surplus from iHst year. Double it Add a loan of a v trillion to it. Halve it. Subtract the first number you thought of from it ; anH half a million remains. That’s the
surplus.” (Roars of laughter.) Mr ik T. Norris, who was an applicant for the Headmastership of the Motueka School, has been appointed assistant master of the Wanganui High School.
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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 64, 25 March 1902, Page 5
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