AUSTRALIAN PROTECTION.
HIGH COURT'S ADVERSE DECISION. Received 27 th, 12,30 a.m. Melbourne, June 26. The High Court gave judgment in connection with the harvester cases, which involved the new protection. Judgment was by a majority against tile Excise Act, under which the new protection was enforced in the harvester and other cases. The Court held that the act In question was not in substance an exercise of the power of taxation conferred on the Commonwealth Parliament by the constitution, Justices Higgins and Isaacs dissented fitJm the judgment.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 160, 27 June 1908, Page 2
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87AUSTRALIAN PROTECTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 160, 27 June 1908, Page 2
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