“TO SEE OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US"
to tot Mnoa or tot raws. Sir,—A friend- of mine recently left a port in the Southern Hemisphere in a ship carrying a mixed passenger list of New Zealanders. Australians, and English folk. A few days out the usual race meeting was held, and among the horses running were the following, each named by a different passenger: Broke, by Gnash out of-Funds. Squander, by Government out of Control. ■< ••• • , Flight, by Nadi out of New Zealand. Stung, by Exchange put of Currency. Fright, by Tax out of New Zealand, Simple Savage by Bulldoaer out of Waste. , ' ■ . Social Security by Sausage out of Mash. ’
The ship’s barber informed a passenger that New Zealand was bankrupt and when the ship touched at a port my correspondent, whose New Zealand notes were no longer acceptable on the ship, tried to cash one ashore. After several failures she managed to get one changed as a favour, but could only get las for it. She writes that die then began to appreciate what the Germans felt when the mark began to stagger.—Yours, etc^ July 19. 1989:
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22768, 21 July 1939, Page 15
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