The Hon. John Ballance at Napier
(PEE UNITKDPEEBS ASSOCIATION) . Napier, October 3o. . Mr Ballance addressed a public meeting here to-nigbt. His speech was chiefly a review of the -last session of Parliament, but towards the close he adyocated a progressive land tax — absentees to pay double taxation. He stated that the returns of land settlement 'furnished by Ministers had been manipulated, and were fallacious. He also asserted that it had been divulged to him privately to ,the effect that Ministers had appointed the Railway Commissioners to do what "they dare not do them- j selves — reduce the rate of wages all over the colony in the interests of the landed classes. A vote of thanks was passed.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 57, 31 October 1889, Page 3
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