A LETTER FROM SAM

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 681, 5 June 1929, Page 8

A LETTER FROM SAM

(To the Editor.! Dear Mister, — 1 seen by the paper all about w h3 . they done in England and Labour »,> Baldwin and all that and also so * other things. Now I wanted to ask you Som questions about it and where offence is meant none will be I’m sure. Now. Mister, it says in the pap,, that Labour in England wants to troduce two Budgets and if the second Budget is not carried Labour will g 0 to the country on it. It strikes me that there is f 4r tW| much joy-riding of this kind. Minis teryal tours may be all right in the orf season, but these here country picnic, should not take place while the nation's business needs fixin. So what I mean is what s Ramsay MacDonald going to do if Labour all goes off to the country on the BudgeMister? And why a Budget and not a Dodgit? Why ia-rour one make of car? 1

The Paper also says that in the Election the Communists in every ease polled just a handful of votes. Now we had an Election here not so very long ago; at least. I suppose it was k fairish time. But what I mean is that a feller I know tried that game of polling a handful of votes, and when he seen what I was doing of, the feller in charge of the booth nearly went out of his reason he was that wild. But I suppose after all they must be more broad minded at Home. And then there’s another thing I seen wfcich I don't reckon ought to be allowed. You know all them fellers that stood for Parliament or Government or something. Well, what I mean is they was standing, and what happened? While they was standing Labour comes along and takes all their seats.

Well, if that don’t go to show yer the [ decay of decent manners in the comKmunity, wot will? But I been Ldoing some thinking, mister, and its tco good. What I mean is it’s no good Xvhat they’re doing about them unemployed at Home. Well, I thought out a% scheme that would do it. You know ajl that money—them n tillions of pounds what Germany o res to England? ■JVell then, as I was telling a friend of' .mine who is in the hotel business —iVe keeps a free house, by the way, tint t has made reprisals his life obby— I t kink that they ought to get Germat vy to pay it all in 3d bits and then that' would find work for all them unei employed counting it to make sure that lit was right. WeUL Mister, I have to stop now because its close on six o’clock and... [Two lines undecipherable here.— Ed.] I hope some abler pen than mine will take the matter up. And anyway I am sn re- that if they had knew about my seerne before they had the Kings Birthda. r they would of made me a Privy Ci xkncillor or City Councillor or something grand. Hopping* you are the same, Mister. JO-