Civil Servants and Politics.
THE CASH OF MR. J. A. M'CULLOUGH. STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER. LAND AND INCOME ASSESSMENT. Tho Legislative Council yesterday, afternoon'was occupied solely with tho Waitara Harbour District and Empowering Bill, which passed its second loading. •• Tho House of Representatives spent . tho whole of the afternoon discussing the M'Cullough case consequent on tho introduction ,of Mt. A. R. Barclay's 'Bill to remove the restriction '-which proyents State employees taking part in public affairs/ The discussion, which was' enlivened, by a short but somowhat heated passage between the members' for Hutt and Selwyn, was eventually interrupted by the dinner adjournment. ' At the evening sitting, the Premier moved, witlrout comment, tho third reading of the Land and Income Assessment Bill." Mr. Field rose to express his views on the taxation of flax, and other members followed on evasion, retrospective legislation, Viand monopoly, and all tho other subjects - ■which aro involved in tho: graduated land tax.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 7, 3 October 1907, Page 8
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156Civil Servants and Politics. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 7, 3 October 1907, Page 8
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