Our Latest Tariff.

Manawatu Herald, 28 November 1895, Page 2

Our Latest Tariff.

The Treasurer's thing of joy .is thus made fan bf^ by .Uft-ty&ijr Bulletin :— Maoriland, like "Victoria, has been wallowing throdgbv^he long, dismal job jdl .revising the tariff. The result isn'fsatisfactory. A lot of the members know something of one industry only. A lot more have no practical knowledge of any industry whatever. Sometimes a whole batch of duties would, be fixed when tha ouly man who had any practical knowledge of the sub* jecfc was away, and when the member who professed to know about it, but who had got his information upsidedown, was unhappily present. Then the other man who thought he knew about it also, but who had got his information inside-out, would arrive later on, and supply a let more valuable ignorance on the subject, only a different kind of ignorance from the previous lot, and get the item recommitted and altpr^w that instead of being bow-legged aa it. was before, it would become, knock-kneed instead • And when i'aU > the solicitors, squatters, farmereyV financial agents, merchants, and auctioneers had finished telling, each other about industries they had never seen, and about machinery they had never heard of, -they 4htffl up a tariff which is about as good as might be expected under the circumstances.