INCIPIENT PROTECTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sin, —The members of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, I am glad to perceive, very properly declined to allow themselves to be carried off their feet by the first gushful rush of the incipient protectionists who formed the deputation received, preferring to wait for better information than that furnished by the deputation, before committing tha Chamber to the policy of aiding and abetting what would eventually involve a total and radical change in the commercial and industrial condition of the country. It may be, as a member of the deputation remarked, that protection is about to become “a burning question” here. New Zealand may not escape infection of the craze through which other countries have passed or are passing ; but in the meantime it looks very like bumptious presumption for a score or so of manufacturers aud their friends to take upon themselves to act as spokesmen and saviours generally of the colony, and insist—not for their own benefit of course, but for the benefit of the “ working man”—that the whole population should be burdened with new and special taxation.—l am, &0., A. 8.8.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5811, 13 November 1879, Page 3
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194INCIPIENT PROTECTION. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5811, 13 November 1879, Page 3
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