A REGULAR “BUSTER.”

Temuka Leader, Issue 1234, 2 September 1884, Page 3

A REGULAR “BUSTER.”

The correspondent of the Woodville Examiner writes:—I[#A 1 [# A monthly paper has been started here called the Awapurua Appetiser, which is devoted to the interests of the settlers generally, and that much abused class, the “swaggers.” It is published by Shifting-Spanner-Bolt and edited by Coffer-Dara-Spike, and from its first issue before me I notice that in its sub-leader, which deals with the Civil Service reform of the Government, it proposes to pay the interest on the public debt by discharging superfluous engineers who are hanging on to the “ skirts of the Government” at a pound a day ; also to make every employee in the various departments work eight hours per day, the same as the navvies, thereby getting the clerical work of the entire service done by one hundred men less, whose average wages are computed at 10s per day. The Appetiser claims to circulate from “ Greenland’s icy niouutains to India’s.coral strand,” and among its advertisements I notice that the proprietor of the pneumatic machinery proposes at a small expense to blow all the wind and water out of the Woodville district, and that butchers, auctioneers, newspaper editors, and M.H.R’s. can be supplied on shortest notice at half the usual price. Here is a specimen of it* literature.

De railroad badge ; 8 a very long job For the Boss and de Government too, it gives Engineers, at a pound a day, A very little work to do. De papa rock is too far off For the pumps and the coffer-dam ; The contractor is “ up to snuff” Since de Government changed dah plans. Chorus, A way i from Awapuru^, We’je gwjne to.leave disland ; We’ll pack our traps and tote em on onr backs, For de Government’s changed dah plans.