RECONSTRUCTION

New Zealand Times, Volume LV, Issue 9971, 4 August 1893, Page 4

RECONSTRUCTION

FUOM A FAKMKB’S POINT OB' VIEW So the bank has burst its boiler 1 And in six

or seven year It will pay mo all my money back—of

course I But tho horse will perish waiting while the

grass is germinating, And I reckon I’ll bo something like the horse.

There’s the ploughing to he finished and the ploughmen Vant their pay, Ani I’d like to wire the fence and sink a tank ; But I own Tm fairly beat how I’m going to make ends meet With my money in a reconstructed bank.

1 It’s a safe and sure investment 1 ’ But it's one X can’t afford, For I've got to meet my bills and pay the rent, And tho cash I had provided (so these meetings have provided) Shall bo collared by tho bank at three per cent.

t cat) draw out half my money, so they tell me from the Crown ; ‘But— it’s just enough to drive a fellow daft— My landlord’s quite distressed, by the very bank ho pressed, And he’ll sell me up, to pay his overdraft.

There’s my nearest neighbour, Johnson, owed this selfsame bank a debt, Every feather off his poor old back they phick't, For they set to work to shove him, and they sold his house above him. Lord! They never gave him time to reconstruct.

And their profits from the business have been twenty-five per cent. Which, I reckon, is a pretty tidy whack, And I think it’s only proper, now the thing has come a cropper, That they ought to pay a little of it back.

I have read about ‘ reserve funds,’ ‘ banking freeholds,’ and tke like, Till I thought the bank had thousands of assets, And it strikes me very funny that they take a fellow's money When they haven't got enough to pay their debts.

And they say they’ve lent money, and they can't get paid it back. I know their rates per cent were tens and twelves ; And if now they’ve made a blunder after scooping all this plunder, Why they ought to fork the money out themselves.

Bo all you bank shareholders, if you won’t pay what you owe, Yon will find that on your bank will fall a blight ; And the reason is because it’s simply certain tha't deposits Will bo stopped, the band will burst, and serve you right ! —‘ Banjo/ in tho Bulletin