Can Afford Higher Rate Than in 1925
Pointing out that the capital charges on the drainage work on the Rangitaiki Plains stood officially at £205,000, the Minister of Lands when at Edgecumbe last Thursday said that everybody realised that the actual cost was nearer half a million, the balance having been met by the general taxpayer. He had been approached to have the existing Government subsidy increased and - the. future maintenance viewed in the light of a national undertaking. For his part, he did not see how the work with all the heavy improvement plan could be carried out without money, and it was only right that the man who was getting the greatest benefit, i.e. the farmer whose land was being drained should bear the greatest burden. The cry had been that the farmer could not afford to pay a further tax. To his mind the farmer of today was in a position to afford a higher rate than in 1925. It was the only method of proceeding and he knew of no other way
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 77, 22 May 1946, Page 4
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