THE BREWERS AND THE BEER TAX.
[by telegraph.] Wellington June 26. A deputation representing the brewers' interest waited on the Colonial Treasurer this morning, urging that by the imposition of a tas on beer he would clog the springs of looal industry, and suggested that in the event of the tax being imposed the brewers should be allowed 12 months to clear their stocks. The Colonial Treasurer replied that it would not answer the purpose of the Government to cripple any industry. He had resisted to the last an excise duty, and nothing but the state of the public finances would induce him to levy a tax in opposition to what he himself would like to do ; but the Customs revenue had fallen off and liabilities must be met in other ways. He said the principle of the tax would be imposed, and should be glad if the deputation would furnish him with facts and figures showing the cost of production of beer, an estimate of the result of the tax, and how it could be worked with the least possible objection.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1317, 26 June 1880, Page 2
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182THE BREWERS AND THE BEER TAX. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1317, 26 June 1880, Page 2
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