I don’t believe there is a depression at all,” stated Mr John Keating at the annual meeting of the West Coast Old Boys’ Association, when finance was up for discussion. “This season at a football match on a Wednesday afternoon £250 was taken at the gate,” he said. “Then the following Saturday an excursion train ran to Christchurch taking 850 West Coastand you can put their expenses at 30/- each. They went over to sea the . races and the Winter Show, and during this time a Queen Carnival was running here and nearly £l2OO was netted. If you tell me there is a scarcity of money in this district, I do not believe it.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21831, 7 October 1932, Page 12
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