WHAKATANE ROBBERY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 9 December 1925, Page 5

WHAKATANE ROBBERY.

TWO ARRESTS MADE. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) W HAKATAN E, Tuesday. Arrests were made to-day in connection with tiie burglary ac Bridger’s drapery premises last night. After making investigations, the police visited a surfaceman’s camp near town and discovered stolen goods in a paddock nearby. Afterwards, the police arrested Matthew Murphy (county surfaceman) and Albert Alfred Ellis (labourer). Accused will be brought before the B.M. Court’and charged with the robbery. • 0 . . “I own two motor cars,” says Sir Ernest Bonn, in his “Confessions of a Capitalist.” “I live amidst surroundings that to many people would seem luxurious. I am, in fact, the sort ot person against whom the whole of the Socialist propaganda seems to be launched, and when I listen to. current political discussion I find myself logar. ed not only as a superfluity but as a bar to progress, as one of the cause 3 of poverty, want and distress. Mv hook shelves are crammed with volumes explaining what an evil creature 1 am. I possess numbers of books telling mo how beautiful the world would be it only I and my class could be eradicated All this is boiled down at the street corner to the charge of straighforward robbery. The main cause of the majority of our troubles is the modern mama for invoking public action, for taking money which would be productive and useful if left in private bands, and rendering it sterile and useless in the dead hand of the State machine.