The Feilding Star. "TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1892.
For some days past there has been a settled gloom over the whole community. Yet there is no sickness ; business is good ; the weather is tine ; stock are fetching good prices; there is plenty' of feed ; there is a good prospect of rain in a few days ; the entries and acceptances for the Easter Races, are good beyond our most sanguine expectations ; the price of wool is going up ; the beer is good ; in fact the land is bursting with gladness, and the fulness thereof is slopping over, but the people are not happy. What is the cause 1 Why, ask every gloomy man you meet, the reason of his gloom, and the reply will be in each case " I don't know how to fill in those blooming Income and Land Tax Returns— and I can't &nd a man to tell me how, and that's what's the matter." We feal convinced the Commissioner of Taxes would confer " a sweet boon " on a suffering people if he sent round an expert to show them how to fill in their papers. The Wanganui Herald of Saturday reports that the upriver natives are obstructing the improvement of the navigation of the Wanganui river by building weirs at Kawairoa and Mataiwi. The Government have been communicated with on the subject. This is clearly a case of attempted blackmail.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 122, 12 April 1892, Page 2
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