A COLLIER'S GRIEVANCE.
[Special to the Star.]
GREYMOUTH, January 4,
Mr Joseph Kilgour, one of the oldest and moat enterprising settlers in the Grey district, has been compelled to wire to the authorities at Wellington as follows : «• With reluctance I have to renew my grievances in connection with the Tyneside Colliery. After struggling to make a trade, I have succeeded in getting a vessel to take my coal away the Rio barque, from Napier, 500 tons—but the store manager refuses to give me any other facilities than the fifteen trucks. In remonstrating with him I told him that I might as well shut the mine up if I was not allowed more trucks. He toH me to shut it up. Is this the VOWOTSni&fI Government and their wiah ? If «o, please id inform me, and I shall at once sell all my property in New Zealand by public auction, and head the advertisement 'Driven out of New Zealand by Government aid to private enterprise.' It is no use at my age to battle with the Government any longer, so I have determined to realise on mvSbl hav* left and live in peace in another country the few more years I may have to Ive."
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Evening Star, Issue 7411, 5 January 1888, Page 4
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204A COLLIER'S GRIEVANCE. Evening Star, Issue 7411, 5 January 1888, Page 4
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