A COMPLAINT.
(To the Editor of the Grey Biver Argus.) Sir — Can you inform me how it is that one section of this community should have to pay rent to the Native Trust Rates, to the Borough Council, and various other levies too numerous to mention, that people having business places are supposed to pay, and the other section of the community go scot free 1 I allude, S:r, to the system of hawking carried on iv this town, not alone by residents of the district, but by various people travelling on the Nelson steamers, without, as I am informed, any license, or having to contribute to the revenue in any shape. I should, Sir, be the last man to oppress another because he has no shop, but how can we expect to compete— having to pay the above-mentioned rates, &c. — with men who pay none ? Put us on the same footing, and let every man sell as cheap as he can, if not cheaper, and then you | will be practising what 1 have the honor to remain, Respectfully yours, 1 Fatrplay. [The redress our correspondent seeks is within the power of. the Council, but no Bteps have yet been taken in the matter. It is competent for the Council to make regulations for licensing pedlars and hawkers trading in the Borough, and to fix the amount to be paid to the Borough for their licenses. — Ed.]
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Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 478, 6 February 1869, Page 3
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237A COMPLAINT. Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 478, 6 February 1869, Page 3
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