DALMATIAN SETTLERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1926, Page 9

DALMATIAN SETTLERS.

(To the Editor.) Sir. —T have watched this correspond* ence with amusement. It is extraordinary what a great lot the. various writers do not know. It is only after years of close association with him, and alter acceptam-e. by him c<l yourself a= '<■ fellow Anglophobp, that tiie. true Dalmatian stand* revealed. The Dalmatian is far too clover to get himself in gaol. Ho. is not like «ome poor, honest fools; lie ha, ~:,,> pride in )ii« own e-tutenr-jt. Nevertheless lip is Jl><" ""'J* rr; " I "" _ I h.'vik we liMve in tI.N land. Iwawc »n----,,-Pe,-f,d , and po!i«i.;. Many m *"■ ffoofl tlii-iE* <■»■<' "' :iP J->» ! 'n» llian '•"■ jho traced t<, hi- rl-.-lil.en.tr cleMre t.i_ir«»» ,„„. ~,,,M | opinion »Hd the "pinion ~f our -i-u-r-. 1" li." M -'■" iv- '" "",• Hi,d to Hip f»«'t tlm: i>f inn only hn.L ■ onfirlenre in hinwlf and hi- iiidhidualI';,',. ;„ n crowd of compatriots- that ii ',]■,. ~',ief n-iiMin why I.c works in £*"<:* ! ,;.-, |..!,ax.-. 1.im,.-'!f >■. v.c!!. Twir« i. '.' ."i'emci.t Iμ-. Iktii made: -The, in., '-.(lit tilt- gum iudu.-tiy nlivi , . I'l'lii- would lie trju-r if written: The gum 1,,1-iness I.R.- kept them alive, and they lin rum have kept the merchant alive. i NV,v Zealanders have stood supinely by and allowed a horde of foreigners to ravish the greatest natural treasure we possess. Hundreds of millions sterling, !in lan<l. gum. etc., has been ■wilfully destroyed to feed the rapacity of these locusts and to yield a few millions to the merchants in Auckland City, who are even now organising to defeat and destroy the Covernment policy of control, so that the present state of affairs may continue for ever, or as long as there is money in the game. Yes, tlm gum business has kept them alivo and in luxury. The country owes nothing to the Dalmatian. The industry to-day owes its existence to the introduction of patented machinery for winning th* gum from the ground, the in\entor '' : which was not a Dalmatian, and « »-. so far. has not derived onp penny frnrn the process. In eonelnsi-.n. lot ny $ri\e your ■.< l,int-Wrn t , " , ' lanpiagc , . The Itelmatian fiin he indgcrl ' onlY out of 111.- n»-n mouth, and our of I his" own mouth 1 j»d r d h.m.-I am. etc.. i A-T THEM OLT! ! LTiiis corrcjpqndfiifc is closed.—£<U