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Colony. He native Junk trade, of
course, is employed in producing
the wealth of the Colony, but
every
householder in this industrions
Community, every chinese trader, every huropean
Mwan
of business,
every Portuguese desk who works
away
with his pen in a merchant's Office, is producing
wealth
his labour, and I think
it hard we should be deriving from
a direct tax upon such householders
the largest single item
reverme."
9.
of
our
My conviction that the
Thium Farm had been undersold
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772
in 1876,
was
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jualified for the fact that
was able to sell it for $205,500
Can
Year instead of $132,000 (the sum
that had to appene in the Estimates
framed
lask
year for 1879). In other
words, after my financial Statement
in betober, and my
speech on the Estimates in Kovember 1878,
I was
able to add, on this one item alone, Leventy three thousand Dollars a
year
to the permanent revenue of the Colony. I have duly reported
to
you
that there is some
posibility
of my being able to add a somewhat similar sum to our permanent
revenue
by establishing a Spirit Farm.