CORRESPONDENCE
A Liberal Squatter. [To the Editor W. D. Tines,] Sir,—As a specimen of the liberality of some of our big squatters I think the following will tako tho cake. At Tenui last week the School Committee were collecting subscription!! for the annual school treat which is open to nil the children in the district. When tho only man who refused to give anything towards the treat for the youngsters wus one of our big sqiiatters-a man owning some eighteen thousand acres of valuable land at Tinui. The reason he gavo was that ho thought the parents weie tho proper persons to bear the whole of tho expense of such things and that his property had become so valuable that he had to pay tho graduated land tax and was not in a position to give his usual subsciiption of two shillings and sixpence towards the school treat. Comment is needles?. I am, etc., Tisui.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4363, 8 March 1893, Page 3
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155CORRESPONDENCE Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4363, 8 March 1893, Page 3
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