TRADE PROTECTION AT PORT.
To the Editor of the Globe. Sir, —When the Exhibition promoters charged a eubjtantial rental for selling in the Exhibition they were recognising a principle which has been ignored, but which should have been long einoe given effeot to by all Borough Councils, namely, that established business people are entitled to protection against the here-to-day and gone-to- morrow vendors of wares. Free trade may be very good for a nation, but to admit hawkers into a borough, who don't contribute a copper towards forming and repairing and lighting the streets of such borough, free, to eampete in business with those- who pay for the streets and lights, and who also, as is the case with many here, pay the borough heavy rents for the land they occupy in carrying on their bu>iaess, is so palpably bad that one oan scarcely oredit such a Btate of affairs aotually exists. Hero we are paying high rents, stiff taxes, water rates, and so on, virtually for permießion to sell, in Lyttelton, boots and shoes, clothing, orockery, grooaries, vegetables, or furniture, afl the oase may bo, paying these various sums of money into a common fund to be used in protecting the lives and property of the community whom we have joined in sharing the responsibilities of citizenship, and all for what T Why to be ruined by an irresponsible (as far as cur town's condition is concerned) pack of pedlars and hawkers, sans shop, stns house, sans home, interest, or stake in the borough, and not seldom in the oolony at large. Since the Exhibition closed we find them at every turning, and on every Btreet, bobbing in and out of the private dwellings or the offices and workshops. They are as thick hi grasshoppers in 'Kansas, and no less destructive, in a business point of view. The remedy lies with our "oity Fathers," whose plain duty it is to collect from each of them a license fee of one of Her Majesty's coins, of 1225 grains weight of standard gold, per anaum.
Your, &c, A SHOPKEEPER. Lyttelton, August 12th, ISB2,
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2606, 14 August 1882, Page 3
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352TRADE PROTECTION AT PORT. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2606, 14 August 1882, Page 3
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