A DISGUSTED FOREIGNER.
i», WHAT HE THINKS OF '• GOD'S OWN COUNTRY/' The proprietor of the Palmerston Times received and published the following letter from an ex-Palmerston wood-carver:— "Austro- Ungarie, "Nytra 5 December IflOD "The Manager and proprietor of the Manawatu Dailv Times "Dear Sir
"i received this morning your letter re acount in which you treal me that you would summons me i would be pleased' to pay you but 1 am a nit too far from Palmerston North 18,300 Miles about 52 days travelling and money a Tiit too scarce if i would some more money brought home i would send you some to open a class to civilise a bit your fellow countrimen for taking them out of their ignorance and apreciate a man's work and not be gullied by false adv but. time will come if i ever come back to New Zealand in a couple of hundred years when i hope the New Zealandors will be in the hands of germaine or japan then i will be pleased to pay you at present money is wanted it is snowing outside and to-day Sunday 5 December 1909 it is biterly cold
"hoping to se you in heaven if we meet there "Yours trill v JEAN SCHIFFOft "c/o Duschinnski Josenh •Tako "Ungarie. "Late starving of the Miserable town of palmerston North cursed be you country and all her habitants."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 335, 10 March 1910, Page 7
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231A DISGUSTED FOREIGNER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 335, 10 March 1910, Page 7
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