THE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND THE SAW MILL PROPRIETORS.
To lit Editor of the, Wairautpa D'aii.y;' •' 'iijiii,—iii ; M lfito Mies of the Wellington papers, I observe by advertisements thatjttp,-LiYerj>ogl=and London and Globe and the'' Royal" 'insurance CompafiTdfj'; through their agents, Messrs Pcarce and frdm the and Provincial distn<ft.r, : ,JjC.i? .truly,igratifyin? tohonest ii(^iil^rs .pf to spe that this monopoly haj'iit "length been!broken up. No-doubt the local companies,' "iw pvjhosa interest the.tariir.was framed, were 'gratlM tq'fint! iit feacli- yearly meeting their dividends were steadily increasing, andttheir |iftpei],-,') ! i|d, twenty per cent, becomiiig a certainty." 1 The cry to support colonial industry and speculations has had its. ardent adipirers—of course anything- 1 foreign 'Ml|t ! EiigM goltf jto these ad-lnjrers'-tfas'aii'ihlibvation. It is np : w gratih o :~action taken by Mei&rl&eUrte.iM.Bannatyiie, property fippr?; at a more nioderatqi.rqifeijt'l'iiri that "heretofore apj)rov9(l by the "ring, I 'and that thp rate of diminish-by our Englisli' friends sharing in the large ! pit)fit& of Jhfeffii'iopofotsi ' Tlfe tow-mill Miim'aM 1 IntA-gstV'feri'feved 'sdiile time ago into R a jtariil to | -, ti -.,;. , r( ~, ; ;|su'36ma ! of '|llfe's y piile'r in c^D|i}flf|e(,lVf|iP|# c le fLii'd coii-' where thari'm l'iis J ow'n'district, i i.lH'iOto'M.Dfi'.the to tlieiriikr'iff/flltliougli sonfebfi am told,-are-left out in the 'coUl by "the cotapecrsiT j b'ev trup.;ior ))pt,.,.!w,t fii'iooi'ofi tmib'er | ; iis.t.. '{li 1 -of our ■Jpsyntj position and ahilitj'.to [pay with oircu%mimces be truly gratifyini i^.,l}gai| j of other such men as Messrs s Tearce and Bannatyne coming out from this"" ring" also, and shaking off the trammels of the tariff of the Wairarapa saw-mill proprietors,—! am, etc., Pro Bono Publico.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 180, 9 June 1879, Page 2
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257THE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND THE SAW MILL PROPRIETORS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 180, 9 June 1879, Page 2
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