THE AUCKLAND FIRE.
[Pbb Press Association. I WELLINGTON. Dec. 7.
A deputation, consisting of Auckland members, waited on the Premier this evening, and asked him to reconsider his decision not to remit the duty on the goods destroyed by the fire on the Auckland wharf. Mr Seddon said that no one regretted more than he did the loss which had been sustained, but as the law stood he could not grant a remission of duty, and if he did he would get himself into difficulties in another way. The only course open to the sufferers was to petition the House, and to individually prove their losses, at the same time stating whether or not the goods were insured, and to what extent. If this were done he did not think that Parliament would be too exacting, and would agree to give relief. In order to facilitate matters he would instruct the Collector of Customs at Auckland to take shippers’ accounts as lodged. He pointed out that in taking the stand he had taken he had only followed the course which the Commissioner of Customs had pursued in the ease of the fire at Dunedin Eailway Station in 1883.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11446, 8 December 1897, Page 5
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