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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1686, 22 June 1904, Page 7

Tbe Tenants’ Rights Bill, which the Minister of Lands is to introduce in the coming session of Parliament, will provide for the payment of compensation for improvements to the holders of leases, whether of Government land or otherwise. The New Zealand Customs tariff in its application to goods imported into Cook and other contiguous islands has been lately modified. The duty on claret has been -reduced from six shillings to two shillings per gallon, and the duty on horses from £1 per head to ten shillings. Drugs imported by the missionaries for dispensation ajnong the natives will i& future be admitted duty free*