SMALL SHOPKEEPERS.
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—l see a petition has been presented to Parliament requesting that another screw of oppression be put on the small shopkeepers who employ no help, for the reason they cannot. The well-to-do shopkeepers desire that the weak, decrepit, and widows, who are struggling to eke out a scanty living, be put on the same footing as rich employers. I would like to know where their boasted Christianity comes in, in their cry of "no exemptions." There is a poor man with bis left arm paralysed keeping a small fruit and grocery shop, just to catch passing custom and make a bare living with the help of sympathisers. This man u_d several aged or otherwise ailing per sons must close, as matters are now shap ing.—I am, etc.,
ELLEN SMYTH.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 195, 17 August 1900, Page 2
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