WHERE THE TEA DUTY WILL GO.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1878, 27 June 1888, Page 3

WHERE THE TEA DUTY WILL GO.

♦ The Wellington "Press," wbloh recently published • map of Taranakl Province as the place where the tea duty wai going, had the following m the coarse of an article on the Budget :— " We have alto endeavoured In our humble way to strike the imagination of the House and the public with our view of this subject. We have provided them with a m»p showing the roads m the Provincial District of Taraoakl. Taranaki edax rerwm [Taranakl tho devonrer], the champion awallower of subsidies, and all Other descriptions of public money, the most backward and dependent part of New Zealand, for whose benefit mainly this ruinous polloy of subsidies was devised and li being maintained. That map is no compilation of ours, it !■ no garbled political skit, there Is nothing unfair oi distorted about it ; on the contrary, it might, without any unfairness, have been made much more startling than it Ib. The map Is neither more nor lees than a faithful facsimile of a map prepared by the Surveyor-General, which we havo reproduced to show the destination of the tea da»y. It spesks for Itself ; it strikes tbe Imagination. How with the map before them, and Sir Harry Atkinson's speeoh ol last year before them also, the House can do anything bat reject the tea duty puses our comprehension."