PARLIAMENTARY.
Our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Right Hon tho Premier occasionally claims that tho Seddon Administration has' done a great deal for New Zealand, but John Gifford, of Avondale, Auckland, who petitioned the House ydaterday through Mr Bollard, for relief, would surely be a good second if there, were a competition instituted among claimants as the colony’s benefactors. Tho petitioner, who states that he has lost over £SOOO, owing to what he vaguely stales as “the action of the Bank of New Zealand,” and is now in great need, has been in the colony for 40 years, adduces tho following list as entitling him to considerationHe inaugurated tho grain rental system in Otago; introduced some of the best milling wheats, planted and distributed some thousands of imported trees, secured the Hon Mr Holmes prize for the best rotation of crops, induced Bristol' capitalists to invest In New Zealand, brought £II,OOO into Auckland, advocated the improving of Crown lands by using unemployed labour ; finally, for the last ten years he tried to make a home m the wilderness, and after making improvements to the extent of £l4O, had to leave the last forlorn hope to the Government Railways Superannuation Fund.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 July 1905, Page 3
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