FEDERAL POLITICS.
SPECIAL '• EARMARKED" DUTIES' PROPOSAL. Meldovs.vg, September 5. Mr Deakin (Federal Premier), has introduced a Bill amending the constitution by giving power to impose special Customs duties for special purposes. Such duties shall not be subject to the three-fcurths return to the States, but used solely by-the Federation. The object is to provide funds for old age pensions, In the Senate the Contingent Voting Bill Reived 'its quietus on a test vote.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81841, 6 September 1906, Page 3
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73FEDERAL POLITICS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81841, 6 September 1906, Page 3
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