PAY YOUR BILLS FIRST.
(To- the 1 Editor of the 'New' Zealand ■'■" :- ; ' -• _ ' Times)'.- •;' '.""'', "' : , i .: " S Siß^ln referrina: tp tHe "crowds celebrating the late holiday arid attending the (theatre at the performance 'of Mr '> Dion ! JB^ubicault, you i.spoak of : there being plen'ty.jOfjnoiiey. among the ipeople, and things are not so bad after all ; and now I gee it is proposed to have a half-holiday, •_ oti StY Andrew's 'Day,, and races,' .', &c.' ' 'This all looks very wellj but hbw aboiiii'' the tradespeople j^and 1 their bills? I as-' . sure you that with us the money! domes' :in very slow indeed. ; /Ask buthjerf baker < * grocer, or milkman, and ,ypu , will ...he>i* ! the same talerTcannot^g^t , m t^he, money , , Now, Sir, I am one of the last to inter-fere-with people's pleasures ; ]but. surely ' tWo, three, or four months is too long'io wait for otir ' money; and I 1 'for one ' object toiwait«o Jong.; Let >us have holi- 1 ' day a, by all means, but lei; the public be Honest.— lam, &c, ..... . A Struggling Tradesman.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1564, 24 November 1885, Page 4
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