LAND TAXATION.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20491, 9 March 1932, Page 11

LAND TAXATION.

BREAKING UP LARGE ESTATES. LANG GOVERNMENT BILL. (UNITED PBE3S ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYKIQHT.) (Received March Bth, 10.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 8. In the Legislative Assembly, the Minister for Lands, the Hon. J. M. Tully, introduced the Large Estates Taxation Bill, which was designed, he said, to break up largo holdings. Taxation would be payable on the total unimproved value of the land, after the deduction of £BOOO. The Bill would becorns operative at the beginning of the financial year. Ho declared that the holders, of largo estates wore a menace to the progress of the State. Scores of able bodied sons of farmers were unable to obtain cultivable land at a reasonable price. Ho estimated that 15,000,000 acres were now used for grazing within 15 miles of iho railways, all suitable for cultivation, which would help to solve the ever-increasing deficit <.-t the railways. THE NEW GUARD. LEADER'S APPEAL UPHELD. ORGANISATION ACTIVE. (Received March Bth, 7.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 8. Mr Justice K. W. Street upheld the appeal of Colonel Eric Campbell, leader of the New 'Guard, against his conviction at the Police Court for having used offensive language during a public speech in which lie attacked the Premier, Mr J. T. Lang, on January 11th. The Governor, Sir Philip Game, on Friday, will receive a deputation from the New Guard, who will present a petition bearing hundreds of thousands of signatures, asking for the dissolution of the New Soutli Wales Parliament. [The statements complained of in the charge included the following references by Colonel Eric Campbell to tho Premier, Mr Lang: "A nasty tyrant and a scoundrel" ; "A buffoon at the head of affairs" ; and "The hated 'old man of tho pea.'" Campbell was convicted by a Magistrate and fined £2.] SHEARERS' WAGES. GRAZIERS PROPOSE REDUCTIONS. (Received March Bth, l'l.lO p.m.) SYDNEY. March 8. Tho Graziers' Association has served a new log on the' Australian Workers' Union, claiming a reduction of shearin" rates from 32s Gd to 20s per hundred sheep, with corresponding reductions in the wages or shed hands and cooks. , The reductions are based on the tan in wool prices, which arc back to the pre-war scale. HIGH COMMISSIONER. EXTENSION OF TERM REPORTED. .LONDON, March 7. It is understood that Sir Granville Ryrie's term as Australian High Commissioner has been extended for four months. He will return to the Commonwealth in September.