titan venture
oracular
$1,000,000
but still (~
of
revenue
an appreciable,
But I think this fact of does not
weaken
within the probability that
distillery
the object of the licence fee
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Jardine Matheson (& Co.), be in informing a buyer
tax on
opium
the industry a trade of the
regards the spirit
Colony, which is
consumed in the Colony he is virtually
imposing a differential
shipping duty
was
is stated by Jardine Matheson
43 1.
In the absence
you
evidence to the Contrary it is fair
so to conclude.
It appears to me that Governor
Harcourt is
this matter
wrong
tack in
Earth first place
Why wanting As for regards the spirits exported by funding.
not see
favour of foreign spirits. I do
how the raising of the
licence fee is to improve the quality
of the Colonial spirit. The only
result can be that, if it is raised
sufficiently, the industry will be smothered and the policy of 1869 reversed. I believe this is bad, for it is clear that the Colonial Spirit is considered trash and the foreign Spirit good, and if it is desired
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