A TRADESMAN'S COMPLAINT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2129, 2 March 1886, Page 3

A TRADESMAN'S COMPLAINT.

TO THb tniTOK. fsii;, -It vsuuld be r> superfluity fur ma to b.iy that im«iiß} is fearfully *carct> in the Waikato. Everybody know* it, and also huw extiurnely hurd it ib fonts storekeepers to keep our bu&inosb together, owiug to the difficulty we have in getting in our outataudiug accounts-. There aro possibly too many of us in trade in Waikato, but we do not complain of fair and open local competition from those who have cast in their lot tgvith us, and havu peimiueutly bettlcd here ,u legitimate commercial pursuit together with us. But it ib a very great grievance, »ud a jubt ono, that itinerant pedlars, or that large Auckland firms, who prof os^ to be of the first water, should open up in ouv midst for a few w eeks only, make a great display of their dead stocks, and by uudormilling us take away from the district the best part of what ready cafch there is which * should properly bpoukiusr be used towaids . paying iw our long standing account*. Thebebirdb i-f passage contribute uothing to the general good of tho place, they pay no rates or local taxes, and they expend in * tho district as little as they possibly can. 'Their only object is to get rid, as quickly a* possiblo, of the goods they cannot hell in their own wopor place, Auckland. Quite recently, a house in Auckland, which made great profession of having outgrown . the capabilities of its proprietor, flooded the Waikato townships with it* stuffs, for sale by auction at any price. We have now in Cambridge the representative of another of the unproductive gentry. Cannot the local bodies adopt measures to make those wholeB»le hawker* contribute towards the local .revenue by obliging them to tako out monthly licenses to trade within the several districts they vi--.it, if they will not have the good sense to remain within their own boundaries? We, who havu a great stake 1 in the Waikato, and pay heavy taxea to 'Bupport tho district, arc entitled to protection, and should receive it. — I am &c, Mercatou. • Cambridge, &>th February, 1886.

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