"We Must Live."
"I am gettmg rather puzzled at these statements that 'we must live' from the farming community when all that they want except a few oddments is grown on the premises," said Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court at Invercargill the other day, during the hearing of an application by a farmer for relief under the Mortgagors' Relief Act. The applicant had stated that he was operating an account with a mercantile firm under security, and the account was not drawn to the limit allowed by the company and sufficient credit was probably obtainable to meet current interest. iln reply to a question from the magistrate whether he intended to pay the interest with the money available, the applicant stated: "We have got to live." The magistrate said that livingr-expenses on farm properties where vegetables could be grown arid meat was available for househoid use must he very small, and the only necessities outside what was grown on the farxri would he bread, tea and sugar.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 186, 31 March 1932, Page 4
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