THE TAXATION PROPOSALS.
j'. ~ {BY iEtMBAPH.~.PXEBS ASSOCIATION.] ' j.J . ; Chbistohuroh, Wednesday. A general meeting of thhe Chamber of I Commerce, attended by : thirty members,' ' j unanimously passed resolutions that in the .Chamber's opinion, the Government taxa-j ( tion policy will check ■> the progress of * the ( colony by destroying trade through lack of ( confidence, discouraging the introduction; of fresh capital by compelling banks through ( the crushing nature !of the graduated scale j to withdraw capital from the colony, and by discouraging the establishment of such factories as cannot'be .successfully carried; , on except on a large scale; that the results will be most) disastrous to all classes of the community, especially to . wage - earners, through' the rapid shrinkage of the fields of employment; that the Chamber urges the Government to modify their , proposals in the direction of withdrawing the contemplated restriction on the agricultural and commercial industries of the country.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8632, 30 July 1891, Page 5
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