SIR G. GREY’S PROGRAMME.
Sir George Grey addiessed an immon.sc meeting of electors at Wellington, on Thtusdav last, there being about two thousand present. He spoke for an hour and a quarter, explaining the intentions of the Government regarding legislation next session. He dwelt on the inequality of representation in the colony, and hold that each male adult should have a vote, lieprcsentatives should be in exact proportion to the population. There should be no favoured or governing class. He would sweep away a lot of rotten Boroughs. He strongly approved of borrowing money for public works, and always did so. He instanced many great roads he had constructed in the early days under very great difficulties. He believed each man in the state should contribute towards its burthens in pi-oportion to the benefits lie received from it. The people here p?id Is fid in the pound in taxes, whilst the highest tax in England was only Is 3d, and then the people complained. The Customs duties should be revised so as to press less heavily on the working classes; The land should be taxed, and if men wanted more than 320 acres they should pay proportionately.
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 297, 20 February 1878, Page 2
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197SIR G. GREY’S PROGRAMME. Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 297, 20 February 1878, Page 2
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