A Blot on New Zealand
The London Standard says: — "New Zealand 'shippers of agricultural produce have acquired a reputation for dishonest tricks which.they will find it hard 'to get rid of. Utter rubbish has' been 'found inside their trusses of hay' shipped to Australia, and loose salt iti' their kegs of butter sent to' Englaa^, and now their new flax industry,! has been seriously iniured through the packing of inferior fibre inside the bales. No doubt the young people of New Zealand, as those of other countries, write 'Honesty is the best policy' in their copy-books, and we should be sorry to believe that our felipw-countrymen in the colony, as a body, are less mindful of that adage than other people ; but a few rogues have, power to do an enormous Amount of mischief to the export'trad©, and unless the Colonial Gov^rriment adopt special measures for stopping their malpractices the commercial, reputation of the colony throughout the world will be irreparably injured;" •
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 43, 25 September 1890, Page 4
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162A Blot on New Zealand Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 43, 25 September 1890, Page 4
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