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Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 14

Speaking at an early settlers’ banquet at Winton. the Mayor said that the young colonial, he was afraid, was too fond of pleasure, and did not ta.ke life seriously. “Wo have too many bachelors and spinsters,” said the speaker “I think a tax on bachelors over 25 years of ago would spur them up and save immigration. Many demur at raising such large families as their forbears, on account of the high cost of living. I think that the high cost of living has perhaps more to do with it. I know that 40 years ago we were as happy in a two-roomed cottage, with a camp oven and some tin plates and pannikins, as w r e are now in an eight-roomed house, with superheater, range, and china.”