THE LARRIKIN PEST. TO THE EDITOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1640, 9 January 1883, Page 2

THE LARRIKIN PEST. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — Some people aeem to enjoy one 'thing and sdme'atiother, but he or they that took my flag and staff from the top of my shop must have found , great pleasure i# .doing a poor man out of a flag that was put up to serrate the freeing of the bridge', 'just because ToT £o take it down. lam sorry to tell you that if myself or any of my neighbours forget to take everything jinside, so sure in the morning ft is goW, and after looking round sometimes you find it ; more often noi, JJflthing is too large or too small for them "bo'fnQjre; signboards, springcarts, wheelbarrows* largff JWftP, s °* coal, door mats.'and anything chat' can be moved or tfestroj'ed by these pests of society, when other people are asleep and quiet in their beds. Should you by ghajJce^fiiH? ih^eiii o^ut' they "tlirn it into a jofcje, anji"|ay "ife allrigHt old man," but 414 1 yoft ( p wl>ym' ff^'^y'^e ,your i pro-^ pe F ty J( a^d c they^ m^m^ enDuch to l'ecflnjpensje yov iffr tqeygall $ Jark.j J myself Ij^ » Uttljß fu{|. b^ nqt by, de§trdyfrig my n'eiffhMurs 'ftrop§rty ? fqr I cannot gee wliere v tno h fun' / is < |when thgy, are destroying what tobk' me ! m'6nths to save. I should not have troubled you i with |;hia letter if jthe flaghad not been stolen, fbr^'cann^tcallit'by any, ptl»er name, althouglrtheyjor he will Bay ip wai only'iaijoke^as i^might be,,tp^{tji.etri? just now,,but v jlt will- floMje* the next time if I,