A SUGGESTION.
TO 'THE EUITOIt. Silt, —I have been reading your remarks about the Codlin Moth Bill, and I thought I would like to suggest some trifling additions and improvements to that sapient piece of legislation. My idea is. that if a thing is.worth doing at all it is worth doing well, and as we are making a raid against one insect it 'would be a good thing to include others, - such as mosquitoes, houso flies, turnip flies, and, perhaps most of all, the brown night beetle. Theso are. all terrible plagues,' and if we cannot get rid of them, it might be some satisfaction tb know that wo are paying some one to pretend to do so. Sir, we groan under taxation, yet we ask to have more taxes; We complain of the immense army of civil servants, yet we seek to add to their number. We say the country must be settled, yet we put every obstacle in the way of the cultivator ! Oil, for a Czar or Sultan to rule over us, for of the vagaries of popular Government there is no end;" In spite of Czar or popular Government the Codlin Moth will still hold its own.—l ani, &c., , . Disgusted.'
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2483, 9 June 1888, Page 2
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204A SUGGESTION. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2483, 9 June 1888, Page 2
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