Correspondence.
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THE LAND QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—On the behalf of myself and many othera heside, 1 (rive you thanks for the way you have taken up the Land Question in your paper. I have been told that many of the storekeepers are afraid, or indifferent, to join the league, because of the squatter, and that one asked to have his name taken off a committee because he got a sop in the pan in the shape of an order for a few groceries from a station manager. If this is true, it is downright shameful. The storekeepers lit eon U3 working men If they like to have the squatteis' custom, let them ; but we should take ours away from them if they sell us for a few pounds of tea and sugar. Let every man who has the interest of the country at his heart refuse to buy and sell with such folks, and they will soon find out their mistake in going against the people. You know lam only a working man myself, living by the sweat of my brow, but I have got a family, and I want a piece of land to live on, and I for one will never spend another penny with any storeke» ier who do not help us now that the time is come to open the land for settlement. I hope all others will do the same also.— I am, etc., TRUE BLUE. Alexandra, April 30, 1881. , ■
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Dunstan Times, 6 May 1881, Page 2
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