CORRESPONDENCE.
WHARFAGE DUES.
- TO TIIK KMTOU 01' THK WKST COAST TfMKB.
Sir, — Among the numerous measures about to be .brought before the Provincial Council for the better government (sic) of Westland, is tho imposition of a tax on all goods landed or exported and vessels moored at the wharf. Tho bill is named tho <v Gibsons Quay Bill, 1865," and in its details, whicli
I proposo to criticise, exhibits rather more thau tho usual amount of blundoring ignorance on the part of our Eastern benefactors. In fact only the author of the notorious escort folly could havo devised .such another scheme, combining so much expense to the district and so little benefit accruing to the population. It reminds ono more of an eximperilled Victorian Ministry forcing an Units of Entry Bill on a community of soil-goods men, than the proposals of a Government making such professions of paternal care, as appear in the late specoh.es of the Superintendent or Pro T Ywinl^Qoretary,
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West Coast Times, Issue 100, 12 January 1866, Page 3
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162CORRESPONDENCE. West Coast Times, Issue 100, 12 January 1866, Page 3
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