RESCINDING OF THE POSTAGETAX ON NEWSPAPERS.
It is satisfactory to learn that the present Ministry has kept its pledge to remove the impost on newspapers in the shape ofthe penny postage, which, during the past few weeks, , has been levied. At a recent Cabinet Council ; during Sir George Grey's brief stay, it was , decided that on and after the 20th inst. the tax should cease to be levied. We anticipate that a proclamation to this effect will shortly be issued, meantime we give the statement as it has reached us from an authentic Bource. In its last issue the Advertiser has madI vertently committed an error. It is not on and after the 21st of March, as it Btates, thaf . the tax ceases to be imposed, but on and after the 20th.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 2177, 9 March 1865, Page 3
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132RESCINDING OF THE POSTAGETAX ON NEWSPAPERS. Wellington Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 2177, 9 March 1865, Page 3
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