A VERY SIMPLE SUM.
■ There is a very :iJ simple sum m polk tics (says Labour) that almost any foolish fellow can work out.l_The Gtovermnent sold Kawhia townships for about £4400, .The colony is paying some 200 men weekly, wages to see that : the rats and mice, do not c^rry avfay the survey, pegs,, marking Iho, corners 1 of the sections. The question to answer is this— How long will-the £4400ilast to : pay the men's wages $ 1 Woncjer' if any of my readers know that Mr John Bryce, since he came into office, has spent more than half a million sterling on native affairs ; and tliat : thejmoney so spent is as absolutely lost, .as if the amount m gold had been put put on board the Hinejuoa, and thiown into the defunct crater m Cook's Straits. " i
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 82, 5 March 1884, Page 2
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137A VERY SIMPLE SUM. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 82, 5 March 1884, Page 2
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