HOW THE MONEY GOES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2203, 21 August 1886, Page 2

HOW THE MONEY GOES.

TO THB KniTOK. Sih, — When an individual gets money easy, say by borrowing, stealing, dodging or fluke*, it generally goes easy. As it is with single persons so is it with a nation, so long as we can dip our hand into «Tohn Bull's pookets,so long will we make the money go, and go in a way for which there is no return. When George the Fourth was warned by his Ministers that the country would not stand his goings on, he told them to keep their minds ea.sy, that the Biitish Constitution would last his day well. Like him I used to say, what odds ? Kew Zealand will last my day. Well, Mr Editor, lam just beginning to think it won't lat,t my day, Ever since the Stafford and Gillies Government resigned, with the exception of the time that Hall and Whitaker's Government were in, we have been burning the candle at both ends. Well this cannot last forever. Grey and Vogel betwixt them have brought the country into a fine mess ; we are re.iping the effect of their fooling and madness in the great depiession which now exists. However, Mr Editor, 1 nnht pull up or I will be getting away trom what 1 intended writing about ! What I intended doing, was to show how foolishly the money was jspent. During the last six months tlu>re has been spent by the Government on Te Kore flat, on or about £200. This sum would have been better to have; boon thrown into ♦he river. The object in spending this money wa.s the destruction of rabbits. Now the rabbits on Te lio re flat wore no evil, the farmers surrounding the flat were not complaining about them, they did no harm, in fact, the rabbits wete a good thing, they annoyed nobody, they came in very handy to fill the pot, nay, more than that, there was a revenue derived from them, and if all the waste lands in New Zealand were as payable as this flat we would be a, rich country. In fact the goose that laid the golden egg is being killed. In truth the rabbits were being kept down, there was no need of Government interfering in the matter, and so little aie they being killed by the paity employed for tlioir destruction that T fairly believe that the last two months every rabbit killed there at the ( Jovo: m:nente\pens>e, has co->t£l. The whole thing has the appearance of a gross job, and looks as if the thing had Wti created by the inspector for a useless billet, for his mhi, who is the party employed.— l am, yours truly, Harapkpk.

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