£5,755,340 Here we have the approximate results of the labors of eleven hundred and forty successful colonists, who, having done good work in New Zealand, have gone back to the land of their birth to spend the evening of their days. These are the people wtio are howled at by a certuin class of jealous and covetous persons who would like to get at that property in such a way as to make tho aged owners come back to the colony. The eight and three-quarter million's worth of money left here pays property tax, and so the country derives some benefit from it; whereas, if those 1,140 absentees had sold out and taken their money away with them when they left the colony, there would not havo been a word raised against them.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5148, 18 February 1888, Page 2
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