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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9085, 18 May 1891, Page 3

The draft of an Auctioneers Bill waa brought under the notice of the Hon. Mr Seddon when in Auckland. It has for its principal object to enable licensed auctioneer to sell in any part of the colony on a license issued at the present cost of £40 per annum ; to ' issue licenses to appraisers or valuers at i>2o per annum, and to auctioneers' clerks at £10 per annum. The object of these latter provisions is to secure that valuations shall not be made by persons not duly authorised, while auctioneers are compelled to pay annual licenses. To get over local difficulties from a financial point of view, it is proposed to put the whole of the money paid for licenses into tbe consolidated revenue to be refunded to local bodies upon a population basis. The bill will probably be entrusted to Mr Thomas Thompson, M.H.R., in the- hope tbat it may be passed daring the coming session of Parliament.

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