CLASS WAR IN GREYMOUTH.
[ QUESTION OF NATIVE RESERVES. I - (From Cub Own Coebbsposdent.) GREYMOUTH, November 11. ; Quite a new development has taken .; place in connection with the agitation for securing municipal control of the Native reserves 31 and 32, which form the bulk of the land on which the business centra and a considerable extent of residential property in Greymouth is situated. Whale the Mayor, town clerk, and others are petitioning the House and Native Affairs Committee to grant the freehold, and are pledging the town to purchase H^the reserves at £110,000, guaranteeing the J. "debentures- at 4 per : eent^- 'interest (raised by special rate), there are others here protesting to the. Ministers and others against- such a course. - ■-* John. Jackson, secretary of the Trades and Labour Council and Wharf Labourers' Union, writes' indignantly to the Star against 'the council pledging the whole town for the benefit of a few wealthy lessees, who .desire to secure the freehold.
He voices the sentiments of the labouring classes and has wired the Hon. Air Carroll o# their behalf. ! The result is looked forward to as probably being very lively, seeing that freeholders, and the working classes who pay rent, object to ' have to pay a special rate to benefit the lessees ' of the Native reserves. !
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW19091117.2.31
Bibliographic details
Otago Witness, Issue 2905, 17 November 1909, Page 10
Word Count
213CLASS WAR IN GREYMOUTH. Otago Witness, Issue 2905, 17 November 1909, Page 10
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Witness. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in