RUNNING UP BILLS.
SETTLERS AND STOREKEEPERS. L HY TKr.KCBAIMI. PRICSS ASMji LATIOV ] Taumarunui, Yesterday. At the Magistrate's Court Mr Lougbnan commented upon the practice of many improved farm settlers running up bills with storekeepers while effecting improvements on their farms. Their homes and sections are by law inalienable, and consequently the debtors can laugh their crcditors to scorn after having lived on them during the time they were clearing the land. Business men, said the magistrate, did not exist for this purpose, and it was disrgacoful to take advantage of them. If settlers could succeed only at the expense of credulous storekeepers in establishing themselves on the land, they should never havo taken up sections.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 398, 23 September 1911, Page 5
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115RUNNING UP BILLS. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 398, 23 September 1911, Page 5
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