PLENTY OF TIME."
A good many people have curious hobbies, and Potter was one of them. He had a perfect passion for. going over prisons, and, being a determined person, managed to get permission to do so.
One day last week he had just concluded a tour of inspection round one of the biggest prisons, when he remembered that be wanted to telephone to his wife. He was shown into a sort of office, where there was, a telephone and a convict doing something with a hammer. "Would you mind stopping your hammering for a second or two?" asked Potter. "Not a bit, guvnor!" replied 6152. "I've got twenty years to finish this little job inP,
| If you want knowledge, you must ftoil for it; andi if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by selfindulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work his life is a happy one. One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. . 281
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 6
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