“I consider the standard 1 of living in the North Island is higher than that in the South Island,” said a visitor to Timaru the other day. He remarked that the people in the north probably did not have any more money than those in the south, but they seemed to spend more. “The hire-purchase system is all the rage up north.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume VL, Issue 3132, 9 February 1934, Page 3
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