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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 113, 11 May 1909, Page 2

The Dunedin correspondent of the Lyttelton Times telegraphs : —The impossibility of obtaining men to do the work was the general excuse given by those farmers brought be-" fore the Court on Wednesday for failing to cut down their Californian thistles at the proper period. One farmer said that at the time men could not be got for even £1 per day. Cryptic letter from a cheerful indigent to a Wairarapa solicitor : — "About that 12s wot you rote, i carnt pay it, but if you will give me a fortnit i will pay it imagetly, i don't no wot tjiis world is coming to. I i carnt get any money and i carnt pay nobody, the other day i had some money but it was gorn before i got it. Yours trully."—The solicitor decided to debit the 12s to "bad debts."