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NZ Truth, Issue 477, 8 August 1914, Page 9

A growl from a time -payment purchaser: — "First yer buys a 'ouse — (woU the dam thlnjj won't stand up Ions: enough to get paid for) — fifty quid down and a quid a week, then the missus reckons she must 'aye a planner, 'cause the Johnsons next door *as one. Another flvo 'jim 1 down and a dollar a month. Then you finds the Instrument of torture ain't true to name and label, though bearing 'Goldenbug* or some other Mgh falutin' German mime on the front of it. Then tho missus wants a noo carpet to go with the 'ouse and the planner, and more table cloths and sich, till. a bloko hasn't got enough loft to buy a beer. No. good to me; I'm off to tho country, where a bloke can live his own life, as tho poot says."