HALF-A-CROWN A-DAY
When tho Weilington Province was first settled,
men earned but half-n-prown a-day. They did not despise this time of small things, and now very many of them are very wealthy men, do not suppose that the unemployed now amongst us would for one moment look atlialf-a-crown a-day, and yet it would be hotter for a man, if he could obtain no more than this sum, to tako it rather than to appeal to the State for help. Tho early settlers were thrown on their own resources, and after nianv straggles achieved independence. The unemployed of to-day have less hardships to contend with than the early settlers of fifty years ago.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5034, 25 May 1895, Page 2
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112HALF-A-CROWN A-DAY Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5034, 25 May 1895, Page 2
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