RECEIPT ANd CHEQUE STAMPS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1185, 30 November 1871, Page 2

RECEIPT ANd CHEQUE STAMPS.

The Wanganui Chronicle says :—MrShepherd tried at a recent sitting of the House once more to speak a word in season against the twopenny receipt and. cheque stamps. Of course it was of no use. It will only press hardly upon poor men or men dealing with small sums of money, and there is no need to care much about them. But My Oalder made some remarks which are very much to the point. He wished the matter to be let alone. The heaping on of these burdens in the shape of taxation, he considered, was the only way to awaken the people to the real meaning of the legislation of this and the past session. The present tax would help yo dissolve the dream, and clear away those those pleasant anticipations which were held out to : thepeople under the present policy oft heGovernment. It seemed like a mockery to talking of settling on lands, the. population that was to flock to ourshores from the old countries. Was it at all likely that people were coming here to live when they w ere met with such taxes as those contained in the. bill before them 1 Here they were putting taxes on receipts, while in some of of the neighboring colonies they were taking them otf, while in others they did not exist. —Mr Rolleston recorded; a similar opinion. He did not now desire to see the tax on receipts altered since it had been passed in the House.. He believed the effect would be that it would awaken the people and expose to, them what their present policy meant, by dispelling the existing illusion. Perhaps these gentlemen are right. No, appeal is so effective as an appeal to, the pocket.