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Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 16, 17 February 1894, Page 7

We have heard Now Zealand cracked up over and ovor again as the colony above all tho others in tho group, that affords the best opportunity for the man who is willing to work to make a good living, and it has also bean claimed that if ho had a few pounds to go on with, he was sure to got along. Wo have claimed since our inception that in Wellington there was a rapidly growing plutocracy whose object was to onslavo tho toiler, and if possible to block his rising from the station which either misfortune or luck had placed him in. Tho following anecdote, for tho truthfulness of which we can vouch, is an illustration of an argument that money and monoy alone, rules roost in the little city of Wellington. Ono of the employees of a big butchering establishment in Wellington who had worked long and faithfully for the firm which employed him,but wholooked forward to the time when he couldrun his own business and vulgarly speaking “he his own boss ” recently sent in his resignation and declared his intention to set up in business for himself. The resignation was acceptad and congratulations offered, but note the after play. The minute this enterprising young party attempted to establish a route and sell meat to such customers as he thought would patronize him, he was followed to every house by a salesman for the firm with which he had formerly been connected who offered to sell at any price below his, and even to give away the meat, rather than that he should get the custom. When it is taken into consideration that the house that did this is a wholesale house aud that in all probability a large portion of the meat sold would have been bought from them, it seems a gratuitous bit of malice to try and crush out a young tradesman. He has our sympathies and those of most fair-minded people who believe in the principle of fair play and the proverb “ Life and let live.” '