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Otago Witness, Issue 3833, 30 August 1927, Page 60

Everyone seems to be living on credit nowadays/’ declared a member of the Wanganui Unemployment Committee at a recent meeting. “ Trespassers will be prosecuted.” How many people who erect notice boards bearing the foregoing inscription really carry cut their threat? When the Wanganui Education Board decided recently to erect warning notices at the Victoria Avenue School where damage bad lieen caused bv trespassers, Mr J. MTntyre refered to the oft-seen warnings a s “ wooden lies ” (reports the Herald). They were really meant to frighten people, but the prosecution was seldom carried out. Personally, lie was not in favour of these warnings. There was becoming too much “ keep off the grass ” in New Zealand, and soon people ■would begin to doubt the existence of freedom.—(Laughter.)* lie hoped New Zealand would not become like Germany, ■where everything was forbidden or “ ve’rfroten.”