LINCOLN’S ADVICE

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17966, 11 March 1930, Page 9

LINCOLN’S ADVICE

HAVE MONEY AND GOODS. CARNIVAL COMMITTEE'S SLOGAN. There was great wisdom in the dictum of Abraham Lincoln that “when you spend your money in your own district you have the goods and the money, too, in the community, but when you spend your money away you may get Hie goods but the money is no longer with you.” The Carnival Committee wants to keep the money in the district amongst its own people; it is of paramount Importance to every citizen. The producer can get back in many interesting forms the money he spends locally, whereas that which he sends directly out of the district without passing through local channels tends to impoverish the place. It can be fairly claimed that the business community of Hamilton offers a service equally as good as, if not better than, any other town in the Dominion. The progress of Hamilton during the last decade owes a great deal to the work of the Beautifying Society, and it can be truly said that the business ■ people have kept in step with the advancement of the district. However, the Carnival Committee is of the opinion that the progress of the town would have been more marked had local trading preference been more general. lienee the Carnival Committee’s slogan, “Stop and Shop in Hamilton.” , ~ ',.