CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5] — Page 358

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everything is co

flourishing, the community will fairly ack has

not the time arrived when some

consideration

may

be

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given to the

to the

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tax-payers

and expecially

Householders in the Colony xxx

row before venturing to say how

we

might deal with that (the

house lay) I should like to wak

you to consider two other items

revenue to which I have now

to reter

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I concluded that financial Statement by saying:-

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If you agree

with me that we

ought to determine our revenue this

year at something like that figure

($900,000) then

you

will at once

see the feasibility of our making

some reductions of taxation; and

this

point of course we shall bear in mind in doing

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that

if

I then entered pretty

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the revenue

fully into the question of the

the Government ought to obtain from

a proper management of the excise

on

the

spium

and spirits.

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doing so,

namely.

we stimulate the opium

Farm, and if we

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gain much

of revenue from the

Spirit Farm, we ought at once

to reduce taxation upon those who

are

moducing the wealth of the