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‘ ‘ The money spent ou this war up to the present would, ’ * said Mr, Poynton, in the course of a lecture at Palmerston North, “cut .100 Panama Canals, drain all the big swamps and irrigate all the deserts on the globe. At £IO,OOO a mile it Avould iuahe a million miles of railway* or one 10 times around the earth. This waste could not go on indefinitely, and universal bankruptcy was inevitable if it continued much longer.”
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Waikato Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 1959, 25 September 1917, Page 5
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76Untitled Waikato Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 1959, 25 September 1917, Page 5
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