A ROYAL COMMISSION.
CONGESTION IN IRELAND
POVERTY IN CONNEMARA
LONDON, September. 20,
The Rev. John Flatley, Catholic Curate of Clare Island, testifying before the Royal Commission on Congestion, attributed the poverty in Connemara to the credit system placing the peasantry at the mercy of the local storekeeper or the "gombeen man," thus enabling the latter to largely control elections for country and district councils and the magistracy.
CABLE N"Ji'WS.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8541, 23 September 1907, Page 5
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76A ROYAL COMMISSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8541, 23 September 1907, Page 5
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