HARDSHIPS IN 1868
burden of the pioneers. COMPARISON WITH 1932. WANGANUI, Feb. 25. Jn an introduction to a book on the Maori Wars by Major-General Sir George S. W'iii.tmore, Mr It. A. Loughnan, of Wellington, wrote a paragraph in which he reierred to the selli chant policy ol the colonials ill bearing tile burden ol Lbe wars, and which is ol interest in these times ol' low wool prices and depreciated land values. “It was in 1808, a year that will not be forgotten that wool, the great staple of the colony, had fallen so much in | price that it hardly paid to shear the j sheep. Money was at a famine price when this terrible addition to ordinary expenditure fell upon New Zealand. “Of all the colonies, this was the youngest, and nearly the poorest ; but it was an Anglo-Saxon community, and accepted the self-imposed task willingly, if not elieerlully. . . Jamil at the moment, in all the pastoral colonies was more a liability than an asset, and it did not need great perspicacity to recognise that New Zealand had undertaken her liability at a most iinlortunato time.” “Since then,” lie adds later on, “with every power in their hands, the country has prospered.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1932, Page 6
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