TWO SIDES.
Look on this picture, and on that! The sale of part of the Waimate Plains has produced £B,OOO as proceeds due to the New Plymouth harbor, under that primitive arrangement by which Taranaki seized to its own use one-fourth of all “waste lands ” to be sold west of the Waingongora river. The Plains are now treated by a Taranaki Treasurer as “ vraste lands ” within the meaning of that divine ordinance of the Taranaki Council. The land fetched £32,000, and Taranaki claims and receives £B,OOO as plunder for the Harbor Board. Take another view of the picture. The Otago Witness says : “ The land on the Waimate Plains, which now fetches £0 or £7 per acre, has cost the colony directly or indirectly £2O to £3O; and the gratification of seeing that district rapidly and prosperously settled is very much qualified by a recollection of the manner in which such a result has been brought about.” Now that is a fair and natural view for Southerners to take. They look at the political results as a whole ; but Taranaki looks at the £B,OOO, and cannot understand how it is that the whole colony does not rejoice with them that do rejoice at Taranaki over the £B,OOO received, and more to follow.
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Patea Mail, 4 December 1880, Page 2
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211TWO SIDES. Patea Mail, 4 December 1880, Page 2
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