CODLIN MOTH

Temuka Leader, Issue 1741, 24 May 1888, Page 2

CODLIN MOTH

. TO THK ED.ITOB. . Si*,—l noticed in your- iMiie of the 19th a letter signed bj commenting on n iparsgrsph.'wbioh ap« peared in your paper to tbs' effect that the Government intended to bring In * Bill to tax fruit-growers—one ■ farthing a tree for a clean orchard and ‘i : halfpenny foracodlin-raothy one. Just fancy! a man clean orchard _ being' taxed. $ suppose ’adihe:ql|j[ the Hdhie hae a friend who want's to get a billet, and he thinks he will dp f orun .inapeator. But 1 think if this kind ; of likely to come into law every inftij.jvJiojJiM got a-fruit treo shouldj in >kft ypipp heard on the matter, 1 suppose they will next try epd tax old woman because they hkve got no teeth I, No wonder many men;are leaving the country when taxo-i kind are looking us in the face/. 1 wonder they don’t ,deyisn a 'bwy . the poor working meii all' winter and ■ bring them out again in the spring. 1 think if the Government would do away with 1 the House' for five years we would bo better off, and i these dd>d6’visers would be the first to come under tho Spud Act. Then, again, ! suppose-.these inspectors would be men that would not know codlin moth from the blight, ; oran npple| from a French crab. L think taxpayer!! should spend their voices through your piper to 'prevent men of this ikios[ k getting their living so easy. ‘I Ihmk we are taxed up to our eyes applsgro were are . urging the’'Government to put a tax of Ibis sort pa let them be taxed for having any at all, >r any scriy blight that is found on their plepe. As it is a tax that is uncalled for on* of your readers may , lot their,-jibinda on the tpatter ( be^npW ; 'the medium of your valuable paper.—l-am. ’etci, ‘Gxopap Phiixips. Ternuka, -May{S3,! 1888, 1