THE WAIMEA RAILWAY RATE.
A CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION. • TO THE EDITOR. SIR, — Apart from the present pecuniary question to the local settlers, the proposal to levy a rate of a year that is past and gone raises a grave .Constitutional point. It amounts to this that taxation may be entirely postponed for a year, and then ■levied alongside the current year's I Two taxations in one year ! A Ministry that would make such a proposal would not last a month. But in the railway case, it is not •-imply public taxation that is postponed, but a rate on private property to pay interest lo the privai'e shareholders of the Railway Company — a private speculation 1 How is this gone about ? Not by a bill of , which special notice is given to every land owner to.be rated, as is required in every private bill, but ii i.- effected by a clause pinned to the e.ul of a . üblic bill. Private property is'co-ifipcaled hy a public bill, and that not to be'iefit the Mate. but a private company 1 Where : « Si- 1 r eorge Grey and the Constitution?—l am, &c, . CATO. Gore, 31st March, 1884.
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 344, 1 April 1884, Page 3
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192THE WAIMEA RAILWAY RATE. Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 344, 1 April 1884, Page 3
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