N.S.W. Politics.
o WARM DEBATE IN THE ASSEMBLY. (peb press association) Sydney, June 19. In tbe Legislative Assembly the third reading of the Customs Duties Bill is being debated. In the Legislative Council the Government motion to postpone the Laud and Income Tax Machinery Bill for a week was rejected by 38 to 9. In moving the second reading of the measure, the Hon Mr Want mad 9 a warm onslaught on the Oppositionists, and declared thafc if those members who were Freetraders voted against it it would be an unexampled act of treachery, and every opponent would have to face the music. Tbe Hon. Mr McLauriu opened tbe attack by declaring the Bill a wretched one. It was purely class taxation, and would ruin the country. He was opposed to the exemptions in tbe Bill, and moved tbat the Bill be postponed for six months. Tbe debate was adjourned. Tbis Day. Tbe Assembly passed tbe Customs Bill by 51 to 31,* Land Tax Bill by 59 to
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 297, 20 June 1895, Page 2
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