THE EDUCATION RATE.
'To the Editor of the HaioJce's Bay Times.
Sir,— Although a constant reader ol your columns, I have not yet heard you express your opinion in regard to the Education Act passed last session;, but I see by a;nume-rously-signed requisition of householders of Napier, now in circulation, that it is their intention to resist by every legitimate means the carrying out of that unjust tax. Certainly much blame attaches to the Government for imposing so obnoxious a tax in the present depressed state of tilings in this Province. Pity the task of a poor Education tax-gatherer! ; If the Provincial Government have got the Province into such a pecuniary mess that we are to have direct taxation, (I think the Education tax the small end of the wedge), Let us have a just and equable direct tax—a property and income tax—and not compel the laboring man, with his hard-earned five shillings per day, to pay as much as the lords of Hawke's Bay.—l am, &c, Justice.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 653, 4 February 1869, Page 2
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168THE EDUCATION RATE. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 653, 4 February 1869, Page 2
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