Parliamentary Notes.
[from otjr own correspondent.] Wellington, July 20. Speaking with forty years' experience as a painter, Mr Fish declares that the colony lost; £260 by the carrying out of the painting of the police and law courts in Wellington under the co-operative system instead of by tender. The work cost £560, and the member for Dunedin saya that while the normal rate of wages in Wellington is 9s 6d, the men employed on these buildings averaged 10a lOd per day. The Native measures, which are ta be i pressed -on this session, are the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, not the Lands Titles Validation Bill (drafted by Judge Barton) and the Native Lands Hating Act.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3031, 21 July 1893, Page 2
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116Parliamentary Notes. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3031, 21 July 1893, Page 2
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