BOROUGH LOAN PROPOSALS.
[To the Editor.]
gi r “If” all tlie estimates of the various experts are right. 1 ■ . “If” Air. Morgan s allowance ror maintenance is sufficient. “If” the Borough Valuer is permuted to raise..the -borough valuations. SiT,—These three “'ifs” 'remind • onevery forcibly of an old anecdote. A gentleman strolling round a country farmyard found a young girl sitting on the edge of a deep well sobbing bitterly, and kindly enquiring the cause of her grief, was rather astonished to find that this precocious damsel (although she had never even had a proposal of marriage) had been meditating on her future, and thus cxn’ained the cause of her grief. “I was thinking, sir, ‘if’ I was married, and ‘if’ I had a baby, and ‘i£ ; the baby fell into this -well and was drowned how dreadful I should feel." “If” the above “ifs” do not pan out correctly I am afraid we shall be feeling tho same as that forlorn damsel some nine rears hence.—l am. etc.. * ’ “RATEPAYER.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2669, 26 November 1909, Page 7
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169BOROUGH LOAN PROPOSALS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2669, 26 November 1909, Page 7
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