LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15350, 13 January 1912, Page 10

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

THE FRKBIIOLD AT TJIIv ORIGINAL VALUE. Sih,—l (lid not ask what the retiliis wero of tlic perpetual leasehold sections. What I atiked was what profit tiio SH»t« Rot froiji Ihcso leases. In other words, if tlio Statu iiaid 34 l"' 1 " tl ' n '' "" 'I'° "Kiiicy that was borrowed lo purchase these lands ami charged tli« tenants 4 pnr cent-, how much, after psiyinjf for the administration out of the J per cent., did the State get, which I call profit? If tin: holder* of llicso lands not the freehold lit the original value, plus 1 per cent., they will have got their land for nolhinir, with four or live tirnos mora 'than the original value to their account, which is practically gnttin,' tin* land for nothing and a very lurg<; ffllin to boot. It (loos not matter how much sophistry is used in this matter. The whole thing is unrighteous, and I would not think much of a country that was governed on such principles A* far as 1 am concerned ttm correspondence is dosed. and the answerrt have left a very bad tasto in my month.— 1 am, etc., TBUBTWOKTIIT. SUNDAY WORK. Sin.—On Sunday mornini,', on ono of tfio large relates not 100 milrs* from tlio township of Wnikaia, can lx> obsnrved somo halfdozen f'liin.'iincn lwily encaired in tlio lipids turnip-thinning. TV work w nurswxl by those |>oople throughout tlio vSiinday jlLst tlm Rime as on tlio week ctiys. Is this stato of aifliirs all I would ask, Where do our reliyioiiH and Labour on,'«uio;itioih' work come in if aliens can ccmo !.<ern and lloiit all our established lawn and religious orders as they fed inclined? Besides, lidns against tlm jntimiatti of ormnised l-abour, the oleomanco of work in full trams pvrfornml by lliosn Chinr*o on tlm Sunday like any other working day hay, to •w the li.iaif. of it, a l>ad moral eIFoH on tlio (Trowing commmiity. If il were a jwrtv of wltilo mon what, an uproar tlitre would lie! Ncvcrtltnlcgi, Chinese or otherwise, it is the duty of tho vark'nts <irg«uib«itioiis_ <>f the land to twit llmnsfllves in carets like this.—l urn, etc., UNIONIST. Waikaia, January 8.