MR BALLANCE'S POLITICAL PROGRAMME.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2341, 12 July 1887, Page 2

MR BALLANCE'S POLITICAL PROGRAMME.

[IIY TEI.K<iK.\riC— I’HESS ASSOCIATION.! AVancanit, Ab.nday. In an article on the elections the Herald says The real issues at stake are; (I). I--it desirable and practicable to encourage local industries by means of a protective tariff, and are the present Ministers, who are favourable to such being done, or their opponents, who arc not, the proper jiersons to be entrusted with the responsibility of framing the tariff. (2). Are the 1.1,000 children now receiving instruction in schools of the colony to be excluded from the system of free, secular and compulsory state education. (3). Are the exemptions under the present and proposed propertytax to be discontinued, or are the changes proposed by the Government to be adopted. (1). Are lea and sugar and other daily necessaries not growing in tin colony to be mad? to bear double their present customs duties, as proposed by the Chambers of Commerce. (5.) Is land monopoly to be resuscitated, and the public estate sold to the highest bidder to Hud money for the Continuous Minister to spend in adding to the value of the big estates of their friends and supporters. (•>). Is population to lie driven out of the colony, and trade and manufactures to languish in order that pastoral pursuits may be the chief sources of wealth to the favoured few.