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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 265, 16 March 1894, Page 2

The Premier's Tour. (PER PHKSS ASSOCIATION!. Whanoahki, March 14. The Premier, Mr Seddon, received a deputation of gum diggers. The burden of their request was that, as the foreign market was glutted with gum, and prices were clown to bedrock, road works might be started to afford employment to the superabundant labour, preference being given to married men. Thoy also suggested that the Government should make advances on bills of lading— as the banks had stopped credit — or, if practicable, buy all the gum, and thus control the foreign markets. The Premier said that could not be done without similar concessions bein<« made to growers of grain and producers of wool. It would also involve the establishment of a State bank. The Government, however, was considering the practicability of finding some means of fettling the gum (jiggers on Crown lands. The delegate to the Intercolonial Conference at Canada, moieo\er, had been instructed to make special inquiries into the cause of the prevailing low prices of kauri gum in London and New York. The Great Clearing Sale of Morey's Rankmpt Stock is now iv full swing. It affords a grand opportunity for those iv want of Suits or Dresses for the races. -Advt.