“OUTS ALL WAYS.”
A MARK TWAIN STORY. Mark Twain’s dilemma when viewing two corner lots with a view to buying, one being a bluff and the other a hollow; was brought to mind by a question asked at the last meeting of the Putaruru Town Board. In Mark’s case, the land agent selling the bluff stated the owner of the ' hollow would pay him for the spoil, while the agent selling the hollow was equally emphatic the owner of of the bluff would pay for the privilege of getting rid of his spoil. In the local case a member asked: “ What is the position in regard to anyone dumping spoil in our pond? Can we subsidise him for the filling he does ? Fay instance, it might cost us Is 6d W|r yard to fill it, but someone might deposit it there for us for 9d.”
“ That cuts all ways,” was the reply. “ I suppose we are all out for a good thing. A man asked me practically the same question, and I told him we didn’t particularly want it in the pond, and that he would have to cart it away out to the dump. He must have concluded it would pay him better to put it in the pond, for he did so.” “ Yes,” commented another member. “It might look a good thing at the moment, but later on we might find we had made a mistake.”
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 258, 18 October 1928, Page 1
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