GOVERNMENT INGRATITUDE.
(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)
Sib,—l suppose you and your readers remember the shooting business at Ohinemuri, when young Me Williams got so badly hurt. At that time the Waitoa settlers applied for arms to protect them, against any Maori raid, thinking that after the other outrage such might take place. Well, sir, the arms, ammunition, &c, were supplied from this district. A steamer (the Biro Biro) took them up under the charge of a Captain of N. Z. Militia, several men belonging to various Thames Volunteer corps acting as escort. I should like to be informed why it is that none of those employed in that special service hare been paid by the Govern? ment, although the necessary Touchers hare been sent to those in authority. Where docs the fault lay ? It is rather
hardon the men, as many of them gave up their regular employment to go on saeh escort duty.—l am, &c, ScABAMOUCHK.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3524, 12 April 1880, Page 2
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160GOVERNMENT INGRATITUDE. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3524, 12 April 1880, Page 2
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