THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 91, 30 September 1938, Page 4

THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.

(Contributed.) This is the RENT - \ They charged for the Ijouse that Jack built. This is the MAN - Who pays the rent They charged for the house that Jack built. These* are the RULES ’ They .made for the man Wlio pays the rent They charged for the house that Jack built. These are the HENS they couldn’t keep fl Because of the rules They made for the man Who pays the rent They "charged for the house that Jack built.

These.arc the EGGS they had to buy lit 1 cause of the Hens they couldn’t s keep Because of the rules They made for the man Who pays the rent They charged for the house that Jack built.

This is the BUDGET which said

they’d be nice At £6oo—but they cost twice that

price And so did the eggs that they had to , buy Because of the hens they couldn’t keep Because of the rules ' They made for the man Who pays the rent They charged for the house that Jack built.

This is the Politician’s dream In which was born that Housing

Scheme. Some blunders wore made ’twould

surely seem, Because in the Budget ’twas said

they’d lie nice At £6oo—when they cost twice that price. And so did the eggs they had to buy, Because of the hens they couldn’t keep, Because of the rules They made for the man Who pays the rent They charged for the house that Jack built.

This is the TAXPAYER all forlorn, who earnestly wishes he’d never been burn, He is heavily taxed to pay for that

dream, And make's up the losses involved in the scheme. How he blessed the Budget which

said they ’d* he nice At £6OO, when they’ve cost twice that price! As did also the eggs that they had to buy, Because of those hens they couldn’t

keep, Because of those Buies, Which tied' up that man, Who pays that high rent. They charge for the house that Jack built.