Timaru Extravagance.
Dear Sir, — M En Avant ” wants to know what is wrong with our distributing system when there is so much poverty in our midst; while some l*ave so much, others nothing at all. It is indeed appalling. Hundreds of thousands wasted and frittered away by Government and local bodies while people are on the bread line. Here is a case in point. To satisfy someone's whim Timaru is to have a pair of fancy iron gates made for the entrance to the park. Oh, yes, there are gates there already, quite substantial ones, but not flash enough. And what do you think the Borough Council in its wisdom voted for that pair of gates—£2s, £35, £45? No, no, these are going to be pretty gates with many, many points for the sparrows to perch on, and we poor fools of ratepayers are going to pay over £SOO (five hundred pounds) of our hard-earned money for them. May I suggest a more suitable inscription:—“Erected by the Mayor and Councillors (at a cost of £SOO, while 500 women and children starved).” Think of the amount of good food and warm clothes £SOO will purchase and then ask yourself if there is not something wrong with more than our distributing system. I think it is the distributors.—l am. etc., TWENTY-TWO AND SIX.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20374, 3 July 1934, Page 6
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221Timaru Extravagance. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20374, 3 July 1934, Page 6
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