A FREETRADE STATEMENT.
TO THE editor. , SlE,— Our respected townsman Mr Leo Smith stated at a public meeting that, as far as the rope and twine industry was concerned, it would pay the country better to give the men and ,boys their wages for do ng nothing, and let all be imported manufactured free of duty. As his statement was retailed the other evening, I would kindly ask Mr Smith for his proof of this extraordinary statement. Facts and figures are wanted. —I am, etc., J. Neil Dunedin, December 29.
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Evening Star, Issue 7406, 29 December 1887, Page 2
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90A FREETRADE STATEMENT. Evening Star, Issue 7406, 29 December 1887, Page 2
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