COLONIAL TAXATION.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 12, 25 March 1867, Page 68

COLONIAL TAXATION.

j. [New Zealand Herald.]. ' The amount of taxation borne,; by the colonists at-present is large, farto large. But since public attention,.is * now called it; since exceptional circumstances, as the war, will soon, really cease to exist, and the .cry for retrenchment is., deep,and loud, we ■ trust that every exertion, will be made to lighten the burdens.of the people. J There is certainly one redeeming fea- , ture in this matter of taxation, .though ■ heavy and grevious to be borne atthe * present,- it shows ver,^ conclusive y /to ‘ the English public]that the colonists:of ; New Zealand will maintain their r pub--1 lie honor and credit, at any, sacrifice-. ‘ We may grumble at heavy taxation;, : hut we r grumble and.submit in order ' that the, public creditor ,may bet paid. -Although it is'strongly,felt that Great l ’Britain has acted very harshly Upwards I & young Colony with unexampled dif .‘Acuities raised principally too, by Im- ’ perial officers, yet there has neyev been ■ ,a hint given that the “Yankee notion ' ivoiild be entertained which;the“ -drab- ' colored men of Pennsylvania piously '•’.put into practice, if we excep.t.the at II tempt at present-threatened by the '' Wellington Provincial Executive to repudiate their agreement made ,re ; * ppecting tliepatent slip to be erected by j Messrs Kennard, and the idea of which repudiation willdoubtless be scouted by the provincial Council of Wellington when it takes cognisance of the matter.; Out of evil therefore may yet , come good, for when the money lenders ‘ of England note how this young Colony, has battled with its great difficulties, ; has made unparalelled efforts to surmount them, and. determined at great C .. self-sacrifice to ; pay ;h er : debts ; in ’ an honorable manner; their '[confidence, must of necessity me givento the co- , jony.. The Englisbpapers publish the ’fact that we have imposed heavy-taxa-tion upon ourselves. This in itself is ’ an evil, but for the ; object for which it : is imposed, it redounds,to bur- credit and raised us in the scale of- nations; Thus, iris quite' certain that ourselfsacrifice will be calrefiilly 'hbited'-, in : England,' knti as a struggling merchant who curtails his expenditures and : in ; th!e face'of adverse pays his* debts I,' 1 ,' wins respect-and SO "similarly db colonies 1 such 1 as ’this, .. Vf hich impose extra’ and realLy ‘heavy " burdens oil/thenisei ves- to : meet-'their