WHAT IS A PARASITE?
(To the Editor.) ,iotice one of tiie Borough Councillors insinuates that motor-car owners arc parasites. Well, 1 looked up iuv dictionary and I find the meanV, U \, ot “ ‘Viarnsite" is ••'One who eats at the urine ot anotner; a toady; one tliat frequents the tables of the rich and earns his welcome bv flattery a hanger-on; a .sycophant- an animal Uud lives upon, or in. at the expense ‘‘ ' )ther amatals; a plant which glows upon another plant and feeds upon its juice.” Now. sir, in the inline of common sense.' what has a ‘ parasite” got to do with a motorcar,—L am, yours etc.. * "TIX-IJZZY.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9574, 27 July 1923, Page 4
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108WHAT IS A PARASITE? Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9574, 27 July 1923, Page 4
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