ABOLITION OF THE GOLD DUTY.
DR. POLLEN'S OPPOSITION. The Evening Post thus refers to "Dear Pollen's" opposition to the bill for abolishing the gold duty:—" It is all very well for fossil politicians like Dr. Pollen to sneer at t!-e miners u,J their wmk, hnt vw venture to -;iy chat the diggers of the colony have done far more to promote, its interests an:! progress— ■aiq i in fact, far better colonists than the class of whom Dr. Pollen is Buch an admirable representative, the official Tito Barnacle family who consider it the highest duty of the general public to maintain them in good >.md the work li"ht, If we mistake not Dr. Pollen is even now a pensioner on the bounty of a colony which for very many years generally auppoited him »n a kind of professional politician, and ill becomes him to speak
in terms of contempt find disrespect of the hard working diggers to whose labour the coloDy is, as the Minister of Mines showed so well last night, so largely indebted for such prosperity as it now enjoys."
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Kumara Times, Issue 3057, 20 August 1886, Page 3
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