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NOTES ON NEW ZEALAND.
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namely, that the wages which they receive as tillers of the soil are frequently so miserably inadequate that they are absolutely forced to endeavour to improve their condition by seeking employment elsewhere, to say nothing of the circumstance that many of them complain of what is called the "tyranny" of the parson and the squire, which latter, however, is a question upon which I am not in a position to pronounce an opinion.
In New Zealand, however, the case is reversed; the unemployed in the towns have no such excuse for being found there. On the contrary, I should say that one of
