CONSISTENT LIBERALS.
Sir,—At tho Liberal mooting tho other night Mr. Nerheny raised a strong protest against, pensioned-off Civil servants competing with others in business, as such competition would bo unfair. Yet at the Prime Minister's meeting recently in the Albert Hall his suggestion that State-kept criminals should compete, with market gardeners in growing vegetables for sale evoked from Mr. Norhony end other "Liberals" in the room tumultuous applause. To restrict the men who have served the country for the allotted period from using the remainder of their, lives in any legitimate way that pleases them would, one would think, violate their undoubted prerogative, while the employment of State-naid labourers to compete with the hard-worked hundreds of European market gardeners whose labour no eight-hour restriction lightens, as it does these city " Liberals," seems a ruling better suited to a Gilbertian comedy than to real .life. A Market Gardener.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13782, 22 June 1908, Page 8
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