The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1888. Cheap Jacks
♦- The following is extraoted from the "Woodville" Examiner : — "ln fairness to the business people of the towp the Borough Council should enforce the hawkers' fees. Peripatetic cheapjacks come to "Wood villejf rota time to time» often, with a lot of rubbish which they- ' sacrifice.' Buyers are frequently taken in, the cheap jacks pick up the spare cash, they pay nothing toward rates and taxes. On the other hand the permanent business i
people hare the burden to bear, and the cheap jacks ought to leaf© some of their revenue just as well as the theatrical companies. The Borough wants all the revenue it can get. Other councils are not so loose. Every cheap jack has to pay his £10 01 1 clear,' and it is quite right that it should be so. The usual thing is that ; a person should be required to produce some distant proof of his intention to continue in business for three or six months, or deposit the £10 as a guarantee. If he settles in the town good and well, he gets his money back ; if not, he forfeits the money, ac he ought to do. We. trust the Council ' will dial more firmly with this matter in future." There is a good deal of truth in this, but the difficulty is to get a Borough Council to "deal more firmly" with anything.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 144, 5 July 1888, Page 2
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