SQUATOCRATIC MEANNESS.
(To the Editor.)
Sic, — Itakethe liberty of fojhvvarding to you a few facts regarding an application,'inade to the Waste Land Board, by Campbell and Low, ruuholders of G-alloway station, for a coal lease on the run of. M'Laren, Greig and Co., situate , between ■ the Newcastle aiid Manuherikia coal pits. As there is any amount of coal on the G-alloway station, this application is evidently intended to supply our small township which consists of about sevanty familios,jwith coal. It is rather alarming the idea of such a firm as Campbell and Low entering into competition with settlers who have expended their all in 'preparations for. the purpose of making a livelihood. 1 doubt not such a firm as Campbell and Low will compel the present lessees to succumb, and I bave" no doubt their whole object is, as soon as the present lessees of coal in the district are unable to pay their rents and business licences, to have the community of Alexandra under their own control. Surely the large tracts of land they hold, should satisfy them without interfering with their fellow colonists in this sort of manner. AixtiSkxfsk. Alexandra October 27th.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 249, 7 November 1872, Page 8
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194SQUATOCRATIC MEANNESS. Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 249, 7 November 1872, Page 8
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