COMPENSATION FOR STOCK
[By Telegraph—Special to Star.] WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. Among the Bills introduced by the Government to-day is an amendment of the Stock Act. The Prime Minister stated that it seeks to make the scale of compensation for condemned stock more in accordance with present day values. The payments have been lower, as when the Act. was passed values were very different from to-day. Another clause deals with brands of sheep owned by associated owners, and South Island pastoralists are to be allowed a month longer than North Islanders to cfip their shfeep. CUSTOMS DUTIES. There is to be no revision of the tariff this session, though a Customs Duties Bill came before the House this afternoon. The Minister of Customs assured members that it was absolutely a consolidating BiUV making no change in the law and altering no duty now tevied.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 9 December 1913, Page 5
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143COMPENSATION FOR STOCK Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 9 December 1913, Page 5
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