EXODUS OF POPULATION.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—ln a letter in your issue of 34th inst. under the above heading, Mr. D. B. McDonald makes a startling statement. He says that miners wages "hitherto have been mostly supplied by tradespeople and residents of the towns adjacent to the mining centres." If this is true, if under the system which has obtained in the past, of granting State protection to speculators and syndicate promoters, miners have not been able to produce their wages from the mines, it is quite time to make a . change. And then if under conditions of greater freedom they still are unable to produce their wages without continued subsidies from " towns adjacent," they will graduallyand naturally drift away into some remunerative employment. At all events we should give legitimate mining enterprise a " show.," —lam, &c, A.P.S. : Mount Eden, July 27,1591.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8630, 28 July 1891, Page 3
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