FAIR RENT.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In Saturday’s issue appeared a letter headed “ Canterbury’s Wants.” Whilst I agree with the writer that those things are wanted, I would like him to note a want that is much more pressing at the present time. What I refer to is the tenant farmer with little or no corn at harvest time and the rent day near at hand. A farmer told me this morning that his oats bad threshed out only seven bushels per acre. His rent is =£l per acre. If he can get 2s per bushel for his oats after paying for threshing it will leave about Is 91 d per bushel, which makes his crop total per aero 12s 4;]d. Yet the landlord wants his .£1 per acre. Now what I want to ask you and yonr numerous readers is whether this man and his wife and family, who work from daylight till dark all the year round, ought to be the ones to hear all the loss owing to the dry season. I would suggest that the landowner should bear part, as was done in the Old Country during bad seasons some years ago by making a rebate of, say, 25 per
cent on the yearis rent, and so giving the poor cocky half a chance.—l am, Ac., OBSERVER. Southbrook, Peb. 8, 1597.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11188, 9 February 1897, Page 6
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