COST OF LIVING.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16853, 5 June 1920, Page 9

COST OF LIVING.

COMPREHENSIVE RESOLUTIONS.

(press association telegram.) 'WELLINGTON, Juno 4. A public meeting, called by the Returned Soldiers' Association, considered the cost of living question and passed several lengthy resolutions, including the following:— "That this meeting believes that the intolerable increase in. the cost of living is largely due to conditions that can be controlled by the Government, and therefore calls upon the Cabinet and Parliament to take immediate steps to reduce the paper currency, to impose a levy on all war profits, and grant by legislation the right to duly authorised officers to inspect the invoices and books of any trader, so as to ensure the immediate detection of any profiteering." "That this meeting calls upon tho Government to control profits by fixing a standard jato of interest for each class of business and industry, to reduce tho duties on the necessaries of life and increase the duties on certain luxuries; to cheapen by means of,an export tax and control of prices tho cost cf butter and meat, * and to place an export tax on wool." "That the income tax on companies and manufacturers of the necessaries of life bo abolished, and that a yearly bouus of at least £10 for each child be paid to families having incomes un- | dor £250 per year." |

Other resolutions called upon the Government to appoint a Minister for Housing, to stop land aggregation, to increase the land tax, to acquire compulsorily land suitable for settlement to revalue all land for taxation purl poses, and to stop all speculative trafficking in land. The local president of the Returned Soldiers' Association said that- the Association would take charge of the resolutions and press them persistently on the attention of the Government