A COMPLAINT.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3147, 20 March 1879, Page 3

A COMPLAINT.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib,—Do yon not think there is gross neglect of mining interests in general with; regard to individual enterprise P It is well: known that toiners on this field pay more for the privilege of risking their lives, time, and labour than on any other goldfield. He pays a pound for a Miners' Bight, and 2s 6d per ounce gold duty— when he chances to get.ariy~and yet if a;j public thoroughfare is totally out of repair, he is told he can repair it himself if he, wants to get any quartz down by that' road, which is instanced in the Hape Creek — a publio thoroughfare where quartz and firewood would constantly be, conveyed into the town. No doubt the poor deluded miners thought they would be all right when they got one of their own clique in, in the shape of a cheese?aring grocer. "Oh, fond delusion!" hey can wait with patience until a new goldfield starts up, and then that busy class of men can hop off without any regret; and good-bye Thames, good-bye New Zealand* J Pc were the back bone of the district; you took our earnings and gave us no encouragement; you could lay; out £50,000 on a white elephant called! the •' Big T 3?ump f " juit to. prospect two or three men'i property of the " big bug "j class; you can make, roads to Maori |ettlements, but as for us, who have been the main support for these last ten years or: more, why, we can go.—l am, &c, ;..— : — ■- A. Minbb. ! Thamea, March 20th,/79- |