MONEY FOR AMUSEMENTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9400, 22 March 1909, Page 8

MONEY FOR AMUSEMENTS.

SIR,-If some of the new arrivals to the Dominion from the Old Land, who, no doubt, have heard the con tiuual wail, that is being so much made, of hard times,[no money, etc., and that things are very bad all over the Dominion, were in the vicinity of Marton this week, they must have been puzzled how to understand snob wailing of depression, as when they visited Wirth’s Oircus on Monday night last, and saw between 2000 and 3000 seated in that large tent, and the cost of admission there being 4s, 3s and 3s each ; children half-price to the 4s and 3s seats. Then again at the Sports on Wednesday in Marton Park, where there were about 1100 people assembled, to view the competitions for prizes valued at £IOO, and other trophies besides. They must indeed be nuzzled to believe that such a sad state of things in the Dominion does ■exist, aucl to take up the daily newspapers to find that Marton is not the only place in the Dominion that has held the same kind of sports on St. Patrick’s Day, but a good number of other places, with the giving of big money prizes, must indnee them, we think, to take a bright view of the "matter., and cast the gloomy view on one side as mvthical.—l am, etc., ,T, O. TROTT.

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