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THE AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL AND" THE SHABEBEOKERS,

At a meeting of the Auckland City Council held on Wednesday a letter was road from the Chairman of the Brokers' Association, urging that the fee under the Act was too large, and brokers elsewhere had not been called upon to pay it. The Eerald says:-The Mayor mado an explanation of the circumstances which had evoked the letter justread. He had given the sharebrokerß notice to pay.—Mr Cosgrave moved, " That the clause stipulating the payment of the license should not be enforced."—The Mayor seconded it pro forma, in order that the matter might be discussed.' — Mr Isaacs thought the fee too large, and would be in favour of reducing it.—The Mayor said that was not possible.-After some further expression of opinion, the motion was put to the meeting, when it was unanimously negatived. - As the sharebrokers had refused to pay, authority was given the Mayor to test the question in the Law Courts.

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Thames Advertiser, Volume X, Issue 2602, 20 April 1877, Page 3

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THE AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL AND" THE SHABEBEOKERS, Thames Advertiser, Volume X, Issue 2602, 20 April 1877, Page 3

THE AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL AND" THE SHABEBEOKERS, Thames Advertiser, Volume X, Issue 2602, 20 April 1877, Page 3