Jan. 17.
The Revenue Sub-committee of the Municipal Economy Committee has produced a very voluminous report, on the subject of improving the Council's income by what amounts to practically an all round increase of licence fees. With the proposed very substantial Increase in the municipal rates, in. itself unpalatable though regarded as imperatively' necessary, the increases in licence fees which the sub-committee propose are estimated to bring in $9,873,700 per annum as compared with the former figure of $4,468,600 so that the general conclusion to be drawn is: that what the sub-committee suggests is rather more thon- doubling present licence charges. That.appears to have been the general
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