RADICAL REFORM LEAGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 269, 15 November 1887, Page 5

RADICAL REFORM LEAGUE.

A SPKCIAL meeting of the nbove League took place last night, Dr. Beale presiding. Resolutions were passed as follows: —(1) Sincerely trusting that every Liberal in our Parliament would heartily support Mr Joyce's Shop Hours Bill; (2) regretting that notice has been given to introduce a Bill t 0 repeal the Triennial Parliaments Act of 1870 (3) instructing the Secretary that neithe notices of motion nor business of the En fit gency Committee be furnished to the p; ftss for publication ; (4) that a manifesto o, published explaining the Leagues viewson land tax, also clearly setting iorth the justice and desirability of such a tax being enforced : (5) appointing Dr. Beale, Messrs Dufl'us, J nelson, Williams, Farnall, Holloway, and Greenwood a committee to considerandreportuponabove resolution: ((j) endorsing the action of Sir George Grey in bringing forward the motion for an elective Governor for the colony The most important resolution was as follows :— " That as it is the evident intention of the Government to limit the work of the session to carrying out their retrenchment policy only, thie League is of opinion that such a course of action under the existing circumstances of the colony is extremely unsatisfactory. That it behoves the House to at once take the disastrous state of this colony into its moat serious consideration, and to devise means whereby the great distress now prevailing in all branches of labour and industry may be alleviated. That retrenchment alone,witho.ut other measures of reform, is calculated to intensify rather than relieve the present trade depression, and that the House should continue in session until the following measures, to which so many members are pledged, have become law, viz.:—The substitution of land and income taxes for _ the property tax, and a re - adjustment of the tariff", whereby Customs duties should be removed altogether from those necessaries of life which cannot be profitably produced in the colony, and should be imposed only on actual luxuries and on those articles of commerce which can with profit to the community be locally manufactured."

Mr W. Redgata bega to acknowledge the receipt through Mr G. K. Brassey of tho sum of £1C 10s 6d donated as assistance to him and his family in their late illness, together with a list of subscribers, and begs furthor to thank the donors for their great kindness for such assistance.