"NO HOPE."

NZ Truth, Issue 483, 19 September 1914, Page 5

"NO HOPE."

Taming Down the Thrifty Toiler. Another Daily Press Lie Nailed. How many times a week do our "putrid-otic" dally '"wipes" assure the poo pi 6 tljat the Government is carrying on business at "the old stand," during alterations to the map of Europe, or 'the Oermun part of It. and, that, generally, the "working man's Government," In ofUce, is going along as tf nothing unusual was happening? "Truth" has also noted that various Ministers of the Crown have 'loudly doolarcd that settlers and workers will be the. first consideration of tho Government that monoy is on plentiful as of yore, but just a "little dearer, ma dear," and anybody • wanting an advance will get It on tho usual terms. Now "Truth" has boforo It a communication from Mr. O. P. C Campboll, Superintendent of the Stato'a Advances Qfllce. Wellington, and which Is dated September 8, and addrcsxed to Mr. J. C. F. Hudson, of Campbell-rood, Onehunga, Aackland. Incldoutulty, it might bo caauntly mentioned that Mr. Hudson ta a conductor employed by tho Auckland Tramway Co., and he la desirous, as all working men should be. of possessing a homo which he can call his own. Desirous of raletng X.MSO on his freehold property, In order to get ahead with things, he applied t<> the State Advances Office, and this is the reply: Sir, — With reference to your application for a loan of £150 on the eoctirlty of your freehold property, I have to inform you that, owing to tho propont position of matters affecting the Umpire, tho Hoard of the ofllec Ih unabUs to entertnln name, Tho valuation fe« will bo refunded through the office. In the course of a few days. — Yours obediently. Now, thin document l« not a specially prepnreil document, a apeulally prepared answer to Hudson's application.. Nothing of tho »ori. It hna boon, presumably, printed at tho Government Prlntlnß Offl<:o>. nnil l« Hpeclatly adnptcO to the prowent clrcumstnncpK, urn! each uppHcant rocolvcfH one with th<; iimmmt and tho description of property, lnk*xl In. Thla certainly r*lio\vs that m tho ilmr* of trouble tho 'worker. th« thrifty worker, In lo be tho Just conwMurntlon of Ut« t«ov«frnment, and accordlnKly "TruiU" ihlnka U dc.ilrttblo that the? thrifty wt«rker who intonds asking n "patornal" Oov»rnrn«nt to advance tbo "monlnh" to bultd a homo for htrnMcK U on v wicket, popularly known om "wet." Jn othw wordu, ho hiura'i Rot a dog'u chant'o. ln«i<l«ntßlly. 100, "Truth" mcntlonM thu matter to show how cheerfully the paj»«r« pan Ho,