FADDISTS AND BUSYBODIES.
There are an enormous number of faddists and busybodies whose principal idea in the leisure which they devote to .mankind is to get grants of money from public bodies or Government for their own particular projects and fads. * If they are unsuccessful they fill the newspapers with wails and complaints, and denounce the Ministers or town councillors whom they have unsuccessfully pestered as mean, stingy, and unenlightened, wholly wanting in humanity and public spirit. If they succeed they pose, and are frequently treated as public benefactors. They receive perhaps a knighthood, and the / service they have rendered to one secT tion of the community at the expense} of everybody is immediately entered in ‘.‘Who’s Who,” and eventually inscribed on a tablet. —“Economist.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 7
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125FADDISTS AND BUSYBODIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 7
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