NO MORE CONCESSIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 227, 25 September 1929, Page 18

NO MORE CONCESSIONS.

LAND SUPERTAX PROPOSAL. PREMIER'S DETERMINATION. HOUSE CONSIDERS BILL TO-DAY. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. When the Prime Minister announced, shortly before 3 a.m. to-day, that the House this afternoon would start on the consideration of the annual Land and Income Tax Bill and the special amending measure incorporating the land super-tax, the Leader of the Opposition, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, inquired if it were intended to , ; pusli the measure through in a day. He was assured that only the second reading stage would be taken. Answering Mr. Coates' suggestion that important representations should be considered before legislation was passed, Sir Joseph Ward remarked that he could receive deputations after the second reading. He could not delay. Mr. Coates declared that if represent tations were heard it- would be so much easier for the bill. Sir Joseph: As a matter of fact there is little or no margin to make concessions on the proposed taxation, and anyone anticipating further concessions is expecting the i?npossible. We have to get a certain amount of revenue from land tax, and we cannot give the concessions people ai'e asking?