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[Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND. June 9. The Financial Reform Association last night adopted a report condemning the proposed increase of taxation, declaring the retrenchment inadequate, and pointing out how L33G,000 could be saved in railway management. The report declares that the time has come to stop borrowing, and regrets that the Property Tax is not abolished and the school age raised. Mr Justice Gillies has arrived, and opens the Supreme Court sessions on Monday morning. There are twenty-two criminal charges on the calendar, one-half being for false pretences, forgery, and uttering. WELLINGTON, June 9. At the quarterly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last night there was a long discussion over the Shop Hours Bill. Mr Duthie moved—“ That, in the opinion of this Chamber, the Shop Hours Bill is a most objectionable interference with liberty, and will cause much misery if passed.” The motion was carried with one dissentient, NELSON, June 9. Mr W, J. Ford, Principal of Nelson College, resigns at the end of the year, and returns to England.
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Evening Star, Issue 7634, 9 June 1888, Page 2
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174INTERPROVINCIAL. Evening Star, Issue 7634, 9 June 1888, Page 2
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