ALLEGED BLACKLEGS.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE STAR. Sie, — Latest accounts say those beings (for they can't be called men) who went over to Australia for the shearing, are coming back after entirely destroying the Australian shearers, chances of getting fair play, by flocking in and filling the sheep shearing market. How would New Zealanders like it if they had a dispute about the price of their work, and Australians were to flock over here ? Not at all, I reckon. And I neyer woiild have admitted till now that our splendid little colony possessed such a lot of mean fellows — deucedly mean, say I. No doubt it has been a splendid trip for them, both financially and otherwise, but (and there is a " but " with a very big B) as I said before, if any one of them possessed a a spark of manliness and spirit of fair play (as you would say, Mr Editor), I think they would not have dashed the hopes of the Australian shearers in the manner they did. I am, etc., True jßltje.
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Feilding Star, 21 November 1891, Page 2
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