THE UNEMPLOYED OF DUNEDIN.
?o the Editor of the Globe.
Sir, —You appear by your many extracts from the petition presented by Mr McLaren to his Excellency the Governor, to have been much exercised in your mind in reference to that gentleman's transactions with his Excellency. If you think the man is a humbug, say so, not try to throw discredit on the man because he objects to become an habitual pauper. We shall have sufficient of that class, no doubt, before many years, without forcing them to become so against their will. If the Customs Revenue is any index of the prosperity of a country, this is not in a very nourishing condition at the present time. A decreasing revenue at the rate of £BO,OOO per year may not appear much for the whole of this great country, but the district Mr McLaren resides in contribues more than three-fourths of that decrease. Sir, by what I see of the working classes of this country they are not backward in spending their money in the country when they get it to spend. And my opinion i 8 this, if the the working class, who have only their labour to seP, can obtain only just sufficient employment to keep them on the verge of pauperism, they will find a means to take their labour to a better market. Yours, &c., AN OLD SUBSCRIBES.
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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 887, 28 April 1877, Page 2
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232THE UNEMPLOYED OF DUNEDIN. Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 887, 28 April 1877, Page 2
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