HALF—A—CROWN A MINUTE.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 October 1919, Page 5

HALF—A—CROWN A MINUTE.

FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS. 3 SOME ASTOUNDING FIGURES. 0 What New Zealand producers owe| to the British Navy for enabling their! produce to be shipped Home safely} during the war and to Mr Massey for! arranging for the necessary shippingg is shown by the official statement is-% sued recently to the cfifectvythat _ thei Home Government’s’s payments for; New Zealand produce up to September‘ 27th last totalled no less than £llO,-g 149,283. g ! These‘ cplossal figures» convey.~little or no meaning to the average indiv-l idual. _lt is only when a concrete il-_ lustration of their size is given that their immensity can be appreciated For example, if a Workman born in the same. year as the Son of Man could have lived throughout the ages to the present day—l9l9 years all told, and worked from the day of his birth ‘l-ight up to _the present time, 16 hours ;a day (Sunday included) and had been ;paid at the rate of half-a-crown a minlute for every minute of his working time his total payments would not by inoxv have reached the total received by the New Zealand producers since “the war by over twentymillion pounds! . The illustration seems to show how incoln,prch“ensible figures are to the laverage individual when millions are involved and incidentally they serve to Show what, this country owes to the British Navy and to Mr Massey for ‘their efforts during the war.- Patea Press.