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Otago Witness, Issue 3832, 23 August 1927, Page 55

Although some people object to going into the backblocks to work on Government relief works, from a monetary point of view, these are evidently not so bad as they are sometimes painted (says the Wanganui Herald). The other day an able-bodied man. employed on relief works in the Wanganui district, sent in a “fiver” to a local bookmaker to he put on a certain horse. And, said tfie “bookie” to a reporter, “as a fool and his money are easily parted, I took the ‘fiver’ to save him the anxiety and responsibility of looking after it.”