FISH HAWKING.
TO THE EDITOR. Str, —As I was walking down Gladstone Road yesterday afternoon, I saw a Native hawking fish, and upon making enquiries I found that he had not taken out a license from the Borough Council, and was permitted to sell ffsh to his heart’s content, and collar the money at his own sweet will. The Borough Council in their wisdom has thought proper to impose a tax of £2 per annum on the European before he can be permitted to sell fish within the borough, but the aboriginal Native who, by the way, can far better afford to pay the £2O than the Euro- | pean, is allowed to go “scot free.” Is this law ? Is this justice ? I think not, and I shall ask you, Sir, to take up your pen and denounce such a practice. It simply becomes a monopoly, because if the Maoris can sell their fish without obtaining a license, then ft will not pay those persons who are Englishmen and who have introduced the trade into the Bay to pay for a license. Trusting some of our enlightened Borough Councillors will take the matter up at once—l am, &0., Ratepayer,
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1242, 9 January 1883, Page 2
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198FISH HAWKING. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1242, 9 January 1883, Page 2
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