Says the West Coast Times :~There is no doubt that however untenable a tax upon gold is theoretically, the practical result of its abolition will be the extinction of the "Westland County Council, with other goldfields local bodies. At the present moment the Westland Council is in sore straits. Its bankers have stopped supplies, and very naturally too, seeing that the action of Messrs Seddon and Reeves is toward the goal of cutting off the chief security the Council has to offer . At the present moment con - tractors and others are complaining bitterly that they can get no money from the Council. The clerk's life i 3 rendered a burden to him, for he is haunted from morn till dewy eve by relays of importunate creditors whom he can only satisfy with promises .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 207, 31 August 1881, Page 4
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