Austerity De Luxe
Perfectly printed in copperplate Bcroll, entitled “Austerity De Luxe,” jthis poem was picked up in Boggo-road Gaol, Brisbane, recently: “The coal strikes can’t affect me; food queues don’t worry me. I never buy ‘black market’; and my cigarettes are free. I never pay my income tax, 1 never pay my rent; my. butcher, baker and greengrocer never get a cent. I even shun my tailor; my clothes are coupon free; 3 pay no wireless license; three’cheers, [Austerity! I can’t spend all my wages, my credit mounts and mounts; I live in safe security, yet never pay accounts. Some people think I’m lucky, but my good luck's sure to fail, for I’ll forfeit all these favours, when they kick me I out of gaol.’’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 6 December 1946, Page 2
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126Austerity De Luxe Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 6 December 1946, Page 2
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