Newest England: Notes of a Democratic Traveller in New Zealand, with Some Australian ComparisonsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1900 - 387 pàgines |
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Newest England: Notes of a Democratic Traveller in New Zealand, with Some ... Henry Demarest Lloyd Visualització completa - 1900 |
Newest England: Notes of a Democratic Traveller in New Zealand, with Some ... Henry Demarest Lloyd Visualització completa - 1900 |
Newest England: Notes of a Democratic Traveller in New Zealand, with Some ... Henry Demarest Lloyd Visualització completa - 1903 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 342 - It is equitable that deserving persons who during the prime of life have helped to bear the public burdens of the Colony by the payment of taxes, and by opening up its resources by their labour and skill, should receive from the Colony pensions in their old age.
Pàgina 125 - KNOWING 125 periment in a free country, and may excite revolt ; but there is a method by which you can tax the last rag from the back and the last bite from the mouth without causing a murmur against high taxes, and that is to tax a great many articles of daily use and necessity so indirectly that the people will pay them and not know it.
Pàgina 262 - An act to encourage the formation of industrial unions and associations and to facilitate the settlement of industrial disputes by conciliation and arbitration.
Pàgina 125 - ... without causing a murmur against high taxes, and that is, to tax a great many articles of daily use and necessity so indirectly that the people will pay them and not know it. Their grumbling will then be of hard times, but they will not know that the hard times are caused by taxation.
Pàgina 274 - ... admit cheerfully that business is better and bad debts fewer than at any time in the last twenty years in the Colony.* The annual reports of the Chambers of Commerce and the periodical reviews of trade and business published by the New Zealand papers on both sides in politics tell the same tale.
Pàgina 307 - ... proved beneficial to the farming community. A general decline in the rates of interest at once set in, and it is not too much to claim that the Act has been instrumental in lowering these to a considerable extent on several millions of money invested on mortgage of the farming lands of the colony. This result, while it may have diminished the incomes of a few persons resident within the colony, has benefited thousands of deserving settlers and led to large areas of land being brought under cultivation...
Pàgina 326 - A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one ; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.
Pàgina 1 - Zealand democracy is the talk of the world to-day. It has made itself the policeman and partner of industry to an extent unknown elsewhere.
Pàgina 151 - I consider, is robbery. I think nationalisation of the land with compensation, as far as I can understand it, would be folly, because the State is not qualified to exercise the functions of a landlord. The 1891.] Financial Statement. State could not become the landlord ; it would overburden and break down the State.
Pàgina 359 - State's allowance by, say, the purchase of a little annuity, or continue to earn some small wage for the same purpose, than it is to incite them to waste their last shilling because, forsooth, when they come to sixty-five, they are to be recipients of a shilling a day.