POPULATION V, FERRETS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1724, 1 July 1884, Page 2

POPULATION V, FERRETS.

To the Editor, Sir,—Mr R. S, Hawkins evidently misunderstood my reference to trespassing on his lands, and does me an injustice when ho aoouses me of charging him with trying to protect " game" (for I quite agree with him that the wanton destruction of native birds is much to he deprocated, and ought to be stopped as muoh as possible). In my letter I asked Mr H, (whioh, by-the-bye, ho has not answered)" If rich men were allowod to monopolise trasts of country 30 miles in extent, how muny of us in a few years would have a legal right to be here (by virtue .of possession), and how many on sufferance f" And | referred tq the advertisements re shaotjng as an illustration of what I meant by legal right and the right on sufferance, And he again illustrates it very forcibly.when he says ' ! The day will come when the people of Masfcerton will be dad to have a pleasant picnic in these little bits of mu>h," Yes, and whon they do it will bo sufferance, and at the supremo will of B. S. Hawkins, Esq., or one other of the favored few who have managod to secure the right to say to th.w follow m,en '•you shall, 11 or "yqu shajl not como on th'e land,' l and the same illustration applies to the whole of the oountry, The reason I write under a nom da plume is that lam ono of the unfortunates that have to work for a livelihood (not a rich squatter like Mr H.) and whilo tho country is; ocoupietl by a handful of people cannot afford to offend that handful by expressing my viewß openly. When tho oountry gets more thickly settled (and I live in hopes of seeing it) I shall be able to be more independent, as I shall not have to, lgok to ono particular- olass far work, as a| present. Jn conclusion, J beg to assure Mr E. that I do not * ! hunger" after a bit of land at the Kaikmra, and if I did I don't think I should have appetito enough to swallow thirty miles of it, and consider it a scandalous shame that any single individual should be allowed to do so.- . Yours, etc, • Snip,