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NZ Truth, Issue 103, 8 June 1907, Page 7

Children should be considered the colony's most valuable asset, but state-reaiwd children don't seem to be\tboufih-t worth a burnt match on a candle-stick. "Critic" don't know what they use to ">stoke" threshing engines with, whether it's bia; kauri trees or old Government Hansards, but at all events^ a ' clean-shaven youth, with a face oi\brass, discovered at Christchurch that he could do with a bit of pold, -so he went along, and told a big coal firm that he owned a threshing machine at Halswell, and that he thaight that their coal was the best ; so they foolishly let Mm have £V 7 v»orth. Their next balanoe-sheet will .show that amount to the wi'ong sida. He went to Timaru, and Was stai-feu?:. that same thine there when the ]\>Hoe suddenly found that they waited hiim! Seventeen Jim a time iSigood wares per week. He was selling-"-^ black stuff all alon-sj the line, auk now he is helpine to burn' some of its mates m <iuodi. for six months. It's positively wonderful the number of people m Ihc crnimunilv who apto want to get into gaol. Yet they caft'^ get m without an omoial I pass.