THE PROTECTION CRUSADE.
Wellington, June 12. A public meeting was held last night, in the Opera House, of those favourable to the principle of Protection in connection with the fiscal policy of the colony. About 600 people were present, Mr T. K. Macdonald in the chair. The Hon. John Ballance moved the first resolution, as follows :— " That a society is hereby constituted under the, name of ' The New Zealand Industrial Protection Association.' The object of the society to be the protection and development alike of the natural resources of the colony and of its manufactures and industries by such re-adjustment of the tariff as will tend to largely increase all of them."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1856, 17 June 1887, Page 14
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112THE PROTECTION CRUSADE. Otago Witness, Issue 1856, 17 June 1887, Page 14
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