A Complaint and an Explanation.
Editor Witness,— Sir : In your report of the meeting of the Land Board on the Bth inst. you state the amount owing by Wm. Brown for rent to be £200, and the same account was published two or three weeks ago. On seeing the first account I wrote at once to the Commissioner for Crown Lands, who at once returned me an account furnished by the Receiver of Land Revenue, showing my arrears of rent to be £117 16s 4d. Surely things are bad enough with the farmers in this place without false reports being given aB to their liabilities. You will oblige me very much by inserting this. — Yours truly, Wm. Brown. Middlemarch, Strath-Taieri, August 12. [The writer's indebtedness stands in the records of the department at £200 Is 9d, as reported, he not having elected to bring himself under the conditions offered by the High School Commissioners. If he chose to make payment, however, there is no doubt that the reduction of 50 per cent, would be extended to him, and the amount of £117 accepted.— Ed. O.W.] ....^ _____________
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Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 17 August 1888, Page 18
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