Prohibitive Taxation.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 934, 24 January 1890, Page 4

Prohibitive Taxation.

TO THE EDITRESS QF THE NEW ZEALAND MAIL., Madam,— Your colum3 being always open t<? the ventilation of women’s grievances and giving wholesome advice, I, an aggrieved one, would lay my tala of sorrow before you. Many of my friends aa well as rqy3eU' wear silk combinations. I have just received from England amongst other things a quantity of these, which positively cannot be manufactured in the cqlmy, and what wa3 my astonishment when iny husband gave vent to a kind of amiable growl at hayiqg to giye a cheque (the amount of which surprised me) for the exorbitant rate of 25 per eeut duty. Npw, I wquld ask you, is it not very hard that a large numbor of colonists, sutferina from rheumatism and qther complaints, should h ive tq pay a heavy customs tariff on absq’uto necessities which cannot be produced in Now Zealand, thus making the garment prohibitive ? Surely our wise legislators will next session see that such things -is these necessities (silk) to ii) t-.y, and comforts to nil, a-e pot 01 nhtiplively tax-d, ivjien it is impossible to ‘oh’aiu the 00 on (a ly rrpvufact-ired article Qa bqha'f tf my sex 1 raise my indignant protest against this injustice,—l am, &0., L.. Havelock,