"Poor old England," writes a correspondent, quoting from a letter just received from that long-suffering country, '"the last straw to its burdens has come in the increase by 150 per cent, of railway fares. This makes them double what they were in 1915. Once upon a time a working man could take a trip to the seaside for os return: now it is 309. This is the result of Government control —no excursion, no cheap fares, double freight rates, and corresponding rise in cost of food. And what aboiit the money we were going to get from the Germans ? They have not paid a penny, ond we are now advancing them several millions. This, when we are burdened by the greatest national debt the world has ever known. It is the man of toil who bum the
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1920, Page 5
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137Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1920, Page 5
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