TAX EXEMPTION FOR SOLDIERS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23975, 16 June 1943, Page 2

TAX EXEMPTION FOR SOLDIERS

SUGGESTION BY MR W. SULLIVAN From Our Parliamentary Reporter WELLINGTON. June 15. A suggestion by Mr W. Sullivan (Opposition, Bay of Plenty) that soldiers should be given tax exemption in proportion to overseas service, was applauded by the House of Representatives to-day. Government members objected, however, to references to defaulters' camps. Were conscientious objectors, defaulters, and aliens to have a vote at the next election? asked Mr Sullivan. He said that defaulters were put In comfortable camps. Some of them had been transferred to the Galatea estate, from which some shepherds were transferred to the Forestry Department. The Hon. D. G. Sullivan; The honourable member grossly exaggerates. Mr W. Sullivan said that the conditions provided for the objectors suggested that they had been drawn up by a sympathetic Government. He said that defaulters should have been put in the pioneer battalion to prepare the defence works of New Zealand. He suggested that after the war soldiers should be given one year's taxation exemption for each year of overseas service. Let him and other members of Parliament and everybody who stopped at home meet that deficit *