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Updated: May 23, 2025

The gold produce continued to decrease, and the cry was for more duties and heavier duties, until a please-the-people Ministry extended the list to every possible article of manufacture, and raised the duty to a prohibitive amount-for many articles as high as 27½ ad valorem. The colony has now committed itself to an almost irrevocable extent.

Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny - Town Life in Australia