CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.
Sunday Work on the Goldfieldei.—A correspondent signing himself " Mining Student" writes on the above subject, traversing at length the statements of " A Carpenter." In the course of his remarks, he s.ays: " Great talk is made about the loss of wages and revenue to the country, but it is not that that is troubling the already rich companies, it is their own pockets. The working man could go to the wall any time for all they cared, and the application to the Warden for permission to crush on a Sunday at the Waihi Battery is a good example of self-interest. At the bottom lies nothing but one thing,, and that is greed, greed. Whjr should the storekeeper not say that lie is at a loss because he cannot keep his shop open on a Sunday ? The storekeeper is nobody, bufc the fat man is somebody. And is the community a' large (especially the mining part) going to quietly stand by and see a law eradicated, which was made for them and by them, simply to' enrich those who are already rich.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 21, 26 January 1898, Page 2
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