THE FINANCIAL SCREW
“TIGHTENING DOWN” PROCESS.
“The financial screw is being tightened down on some of the hard-up far mere,” remarked a farmer visitor to a “Wanganui Herald” reporter. Tho farmer then went on to state that hfc knew of some cases in his own district. Cash was more elastic just now, and knowing that there were persons with good becking on the warpath, some of those persons who held the mortgages were anxious to get the stragglers out and let the other fellow in. “And what happens to the unfortunate man who goes out?” queried the reporter. The farmer replied that the most of those he referred to had only been working-for a mere existence for a long time past, and although it was hard to walk out, having lost everything, would bo preferable to holding on and still making nothing.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11415, 11 January 1923, Page 4
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142THE FINANCIAL SCREW New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11415, 11 January 1923, Page 4
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