PROTECTION MEETING IN DUNEDIN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1825, 26 April 1888, Page 2

PROTECTION MEETING IN DUNEDIN.

(PBB PBKBS ASSOCIATION,)

Dunbdin, April 25. A largely attended pablio meeting was held thia evening to consider tha best tnathoda to be adopted ko retain and employ oar population. The Miyor was in ) the obair. The prinoipal speakers to the motions were Mr Fish, Dr Fitohett, and |Me Downia Stewart, M.H.R.'a, and Mesara Scnbla McKenz'e, and Barron, M.H. R.'s, sp >ka againac f.ha motiona. All the three latter had a difficulty In getting a hearing, but Mr >JcKeTz!e at last auooeeded, though Messrs Allen and Batron were only partially sucoeaaf a). The resolutions which were declared to be carried unanimously were — (1) That strenaou3 efforts be m&da at once to retain our population ; (2) that one of tha beat methods of retaking and finding empl >y« mant for our population is the institution of a strong protective tariff on such artioleß as oan b9 advantageoualy manufactured in the oolooy ; (3) that an Inoomo tax add a graduated land Ux should be substituted for the present property tax ;, (4) that the resolutions be forwarded to the Premier. Mr Soobie Mackenzie' proposed an amendment, which the Mayor declined to pat, on the ground of its not being an amendment. Ifc was— "That, In the opinion of the meeting, it is essential that at a time of depression like the present no burdens Bhould be laid upon the people of New Zealand other than such as are abiolutely necessary to supply the me&nß of administering the colony's afhira, and meeting its obligations. (2) That in order to restore ooufidence, publio borrowing should cease for a time, and the colony abonld be made to live within its own resouroes and every effort directed to the roduction of taxation."