Mr, Phillips was asked if breweries could not be licensed and replied in the affirmative, but pointed out that when licensing a business like that the Council would have to assume more responsibility for supervising production which would entail an in-Crease to its staff and employment of inspectors, He did not see any objection to breweries being taxed and agreed that they came within the category of factories, The committee he exp! has under consideration the licensing of occupations not licensed at present, Anot#er questioner asked whether it was not true that certain ratepayers held a large number of votes, suggesting that the Council could save time by summoning a meeting of the vote holders to decide Municipal fairs, Mr, Phillips pointed out that he would not allow himself to be drawn into constitutional or political discussions, In a commentary on Aot "Municipal topics Mr. Phillips "IL is sometimes said that the Council does not pay enough atten-tien to answering criticisms of its doings made by the public in letters to the papers, This time, I want to try and answer a criticism before it is made, There has been considerable publicity ca lately to the question of equality of taxation, and the Council has-appointed a Committee to go into this question, The Members of the Committee are Mr, C. S. Franklin, iMr, J, R, Jones, Mr. N, F, Meyers, 4 Mr. O, Okamoto and Mr, J. H, Sun, Now, some people will perhaps complain that the members of this Committee are people who have been too 'closely associated with the Council, The Council realized that this criticism might be made, and I want to take this opportunity of explaining to you why the Council appointed a Committee consisting of people who were experts in Council affairs, The job that the Committee has to do is a vi difficult one and it has to be done very quickly if the Committee's
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