The Election and the Farmers. TO THE EDITOR.
Sir, '-Mr Seddon is backing up prohibition can« didates in Duuedin, Mataura, Milton, Christchurch, and other places. If prohibition is carried everyone knows now that £600.000 will be lost to the customs, and it's got to be made up somehow. People have been wondering how, but the cat is out of the bag at last. The land tax is ! to be doubled and the exemption reduced I it s ! hard enough to make farming pay at present, and ! Heaven help us if the 80,000 producers are to ba further squeezed like this. , I'm a temperate man myself, but if other farmers are of my mind and want to steer clear or ruination they will vote against probation candidates, no matter whether they are Liberal 0* Conservatives. — I am, &c, " Mosgiel, November 23. A FARMED
Mr A. H. Gill has been re-elected Mayor ol Palmerston. About 40 men engaged on the contract fos the construction of the outfall sewage in eonA neotion with the drainage works ab Wellingtodji etruok for an advanc* of from It to 8s per d*w Thß contractors decline to concede the axe jaaiid*.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2230, 26 November 1896, Page 16
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194The Election and the Farmers. TO THE EDITOR. Otago Witness, Issue 2230, 26 November 1896, Page 16
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