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concession will be made to taxis but the additional burden of
the petrol tax in their case may be regarded as a substitute
for the special taxation of the tax operators which was
suggested by the Taxation Committee bus which the Government
does not now intend to pursue. The second action which it is
proposed to take to limit uxports which are undesirable from
the exchange point of view is the cn.ctment of legislation
enabling the Government to prohibit the import of specified
articles except under licence. It is proposed that licences
should be issued freely when the importer is able to give
guarantees that the articles will be sold only for re-export
but very sporingly in other cases; and the application of
this system will be limited to articles which can convenienti y
be controlled in such a way. The bill of an ordinance to
provide for such a system will be introduced as early as
possible.
nama,
I now move formally the Resolution standing in my
that the draft estimates for 19.0/41 be approved, but
in doing so I give formal notice that amendments on the lines
just indicated will be proposed in the Select Committee to
which the Resolution will presumably be referred.
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