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The Houße-.tesuaied at 7.30 p. nfi Mr Lawry deprecated the personal animosity that had been displayed on several ooqaslonß dating the debate. He looked on the tariff aa chiefly revenue producing. It It had been . purely protective be would not have support id It, but as it would help looal Industry while adding to the revenue, he wonld, with • few modifications, vote for It, Mr Talwhanga wanted to lee a Council established for the Maoris themselves, and also that the Natives should be allowed ti deal with their own lends as they liked. All the protection, ho understood was pro* teotion for Maori l»nd. Mr Carroll, wonld favor . Freetrade m Native Lando. Mr Ballinoe's Aot was nnworktble, and not* single transaction bad taken place onder it, As to the tariff he declared himself a Freetrader, and agreed with tLose he thought there were other avenues by which money could be raised than by. protective , tuxes. If we ouuld possibly;, get a good pripa,-for oar railways he wonld advocate selling them to relievo the people of their- bardeno aa much as possible, ; . Mr Marohant oonld not agree With the Government propoials, as the tariff seemed to him to be designed specially to bear heavily on the consumer and to be m the interests of manufacturers. Mr Reeves (Inangahua) did not think the tariff went far enough m the dlreotion ofj Protection. Sir John Hall disapproved of raising the school age. Even if it were done Ihe saving would be so email as to. be unappreciable; He could not apprqve of the aboltion of the San Francisco service. Speaking with coma knowledge of official retrenchment ho was boind t6 express his surprise that Government had bfen able to come down with amounting to nearly a quarter of a million. He baa had fa go through tho same painful experience, and felt that they ha.d done 49 much as could be expected of them m this respect, He could not support the amend* merit, whioh was really one of "no confi-* donee," He felt sure that the country endorsed the Government policy, and would heartily approve it. Mr Ehrcon said that this cry for Pro tootion was merely the result of a diseased state of public mind. The House divided, and tho motion for going into committee was carried by 50 to 27. The Premier said there were not two of the Freetraders who agreed m their speeches as to what ought to hava been done m place of the Government proposata. He reviewed the circumstances under which the Ministry had been formed, to Bhow that it was clearly, uuderetood he was to frame a policy, and thow who had made him Premier could support It or not as they chose. Thero waß no principle involved m - the matter, as the country already had high import duties; Would any of fyhem have courage to 'get up and propose a purely "Freotrade pojlcy? Much as he regretted losing old friends) still he must do his duty to the country irrespective of friends. He must also tell the Opposition, some of whom had tauoted the Government, that they, weird working for no party, but were pursuing their own convlotlon of whajt was Ef^essa/y for the country, Ips own opinion y&% that the feeling of the country was agataat giving np the services as anggested by some members. It was evident from the debate that the House would not agree to raising the school age nor abolishing subsidies to local bodies. He had been twitted with bringing down taxation proposal* Identical with Sir J. Vogel's, but thosewho aald ao had altogether overlooked tho fact that, before asking for more revenue, they had. reduced expenditure by nearly a quarter of a million. He explained that the reason for imposing the primage duty was that they found the deficit would be 4128,000 more than e^psoted, and< they had no other means of paying it except by this means as the ordinary • revenue would not bear it. It was possible they might fiad next year that more revenue would be wanted, 'though be hoped not. Bat all he oauld say was that If it wera found neoeaaary he mast have It. It was of the utmost importanoa that the tariff sh,ou_ld remain fixed for some time {o com?, and that waej qnp of tho reasons why he had not ton^hdd 1 sugar, Ifnd othel articles, whioh, ijl neaessary, oou|d Qf taxed at a fqture tlma without disturbing trade. He hQpai thit now the battle. was over, all would Help to get the BUI through Committee, The Bill was ooasidered la Committee* Clause 1 was pisiad and progceas r«« ported. ggThe Uouae aijoqcqocl at laldaigot
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1868, 15 June 1888, Page 2
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