To the Editor of the 'Evening Mail.'
Sih,—As no reference has been made to the usury iaws by any of the candidates, I beg to be allowed through the medium of your journal to put the undernoted questions S" ~ach of the four candidates, in order that d others may decide how to vote, y object in making the enquiry is mainly ive the struggling settler from" the fangs he money grubber by legislative enactroperties are very rapidly falling into hands of the mortgagees, and in most a making hopeless men and pauper ilies of the former owners: this is indeed canker worm that is destroying the ny; the prime cause is excessive rates of
t Contend that with good freehold security » per cent ia a fair rate of interest to pay and receive.
Question i . — Are you a money lender? Question 2— Do you think "l5 to 20 per cent a fair rate of interest? Question 3.— Would you support ft measure making it usury for charging more than 7 per cent on good landed security? I am, &c, Anti -Shylock. Nelson, Sept. 2, 1879.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 209, 4 September 1879, Page 2
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186To the Editor of the 'Evening Mail.' Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 209, 4 September 1879, Page 2
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