A Yankee Over-stretches.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10473, 31 December 1927, Page 5 (Supplement)

A Yankee Over-stretches.

“In a. Gisborne church on Sunday,” said the ‘‘Standard” on September 16, 1900. a visiting Yankee parson took as an illustration that a townsman had £IO.OOO on liis premises at night and that the fact was no secret. And not a smile was to be observed. One of those present could not help wondering if the minister had net been told the story of a leading business man saying at a meeting of creditors of a bankrupt publican that he did not believe there was £IOOO in Gisborne, banks reckoned in.”

An Excellent Example.

Thus the Gisborne correspondent of ilie Nnnior “News” on July 1. 1S90: “Only last week. Mr. Field, of VVnimata'. a rising' district almost inaccessible three years ago, sold for 11/6 a head a lot of sheen of a class which he would have had trouble in getting o’- r-"r head twelve months ago. Mr Field is a young man who cnti set the town crowding, billiard plavitig colonial youth an example o’ what can be done by energy and a fondnete f e- work.”