TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL.
TEH MESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, August 8 At a meeting of the Trades and Labor Council to-night, it was asserted that some middlemen are importing potatoes as seed potatoes (on which no duty is imposed) and selling them for table purposes, thus evading a duty of 25s a ton, to which potatoes for eonsumption are subject. It was resolved to draw tho attention of the Minister for Agriculture to tho nutter, and to repeat a former request to remove the duty from all potatoes. The Couucil resolved to endorse the protost of the Auckland Saddlers' Union against the ••ward recently mado by the Arbitration Court in the saddlers' dispute (m which no increase of wages was provided for), and to communicate witli the Premier and Minister for Labor on the subject. The Council also resolved to tender its congratulations to Sir Joseph Ward on his selection of lis Ministry, and to the Hon. G. Fowlds on his appointment to the position of Minister for Education.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8177, 9 August 1906, Page 2
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168TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8177, 9 August 1906, Page 2
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