ONE'S RIGHTS AND KOW-TOW.
THE HUMBLING STYLE OF TO-DA?.. (By Telegraph.-Spccial CorresnonaenD Wanganui, December 6. As an instance of settlers' disabilities and the need for continual political kowtow without which nothing seems possible it may be mentioned that a man has a. section inland from Kai Iwi which was cleared of bush 20 years ago. When he took.it up on lease it was, of course, loaded mth the improvements. He has paid the 'loading" for many years, but has never been given a road and has not the slightest idea when he will be given the access -which he desires and is entitled to. "Apparently," he remarked to: a local pressman to-day, "the only thing to do is to keep seeing the Minister, but there is something humiliating in our system of eternally cadging for something which ought to be given as a' matter of right. Why," he remarked in conclusion, "cannot these cases be decided on their merits, and the promises.kept that are made to settlers?*^
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 993, 7 December 1910, Page 4
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ONE'S RIGHTS AND KOW-TOW.
Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 993, 7 December 1910, Page 4
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