SHYLOCKS OF SOCIETY.
THE SPIDER AND THE FLY. LORD CARSON'S STORY. ■ (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, March IS. The House of Lords read the Moneylenders' Bill a second time. Lord Carson disclosed that a young relative of his lost money through racing. The bookmaker introduced him to a money-lender, to whom he repaid the whole of the sum borrowed plus 50 per cent compound interest. He still owed this man£6oo. He prayed that his bitterest enemy escape the clutches of money-lenders.—----j ("Sun.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 5
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81SHYLOCKS OF SOCIETY. Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 5
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