IN SWAGGERS' LAND.
EXTr,AOKDINAI?YFIGURES.
The track of the sundowner leads him ip,many and queer directions,.but there always, in all lands,- is some of, the country visited, more..frequently than tho rest by the man with the swag on his 'back. ' .' ■
The Vairarapa and southern Hawke's "Bay are the hunting grounds of the sundowner on this Island. An Akitio settler,. ! — Akitio is:'on -tho ,Er>.st Coast,', 50. miles' | from Dannevirlte—is a particular favour- ! ite of the pedestrians. One year 800 i called on him, and iu another year the .average was reckoned to ho four-a ; night. Pour a night means nearly. 1509 tin the year. As the settler .remarked: "They take a bit of providing'fori" It is said by people-wlft know the country • that it> costs one man out that way J&100 : a,year providing for swaggers. The chief | thing- the figures indicate is that tho ont-b»ck rrin-holder does his share of •maintaining New Zealand's poor and alleged poor, an indirect contributioni to I the • country's purse, for which ho gets 'scant thanks, from tho. direct recipients, ■and no recognition from anyone.else. "
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1023, 12 January 1911, Page 8
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178IN SWAGGERS' LAND. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1023, 12 January 1911, Page 8
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