GOD OR MAMMON?
“For good or for ill, I have always written my own speeches,” said the Governor-General (Sir Bernard Fergusson), when he officially opened the New Zealand Industries Fair last evening. “But for this important occasion I wanted some information out of a certain ministry in Wellington, which had better be nameless. They were working very hard and under pressure, and in spite of several telephone calls by my staff,
the material I wanted took a long time to get
“One of the ministry people, having been prodded for the fourth or fifth time by one of my secretaries, protested that he was being badgered for other items of information by various Ministers. In his exasperation, I am told, he said: ‘Really, you cannot serve God and Mammon.’ “I have been wondering ever since which I am supposed to be.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31142, 19 August 1966, Page 1
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141GOD OR MAMMON? Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31142, 19 August 1966, Page 1
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