WELLINGTON.
Saturday.
THE BEER TAX.
A deputation of representatives of the brewing interest waited on the Treasurer this morning, urging that the imposition^ of a tax on beer would clog the springs of the ltcal industry, and suggested that, in the event of the tax being imposed, brewers should be allowed twelve months to clear off their stocks. The Treasurer replied that it would not answer the purpose of the Government to cripple any industry. He had resisted tho last excise duty, and nothing but the state of the public finances would induce him to levy a tax in opposition of what he himself would like to do. s ßut the Customs revenue had fallen off, and liabilities must be met in other ways. He said the principle of ihe tax would be imposed, and he should be glad if a deputation would furnish him with facts and figures showing the cost of the production of beer, also an estimate of the result of the tax, and how it could be worked with the least-possible objection.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3590, 29 June 1880, Page 2
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176WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3590, 29 June 1880, Page 2
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