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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 638, 15 October 1909, Page 5

TO THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. Pass the following programme into Law, and- the Land > and Labour Trouble will bo . settled for the next generation:— . . . : THE INJUSTICE OF .THE 'PRESENT LAND : ~ ■ AND INCOME-TAX. . . A person with £30130 capital goes into busi. '■ness;'he makes a profit ot .£6OO. By the.Act he is allowed to take off his rent and expenses, say, £300; he is al6o allowed an oiemption-of-£3oo—so that ho pays no 'tax. . . , A -farmer 'with" .£3000 : buys a farm.' 'He isallowed to ' take off his-improvements, l say, iB500;. he is also.: allowed -an exemption 'or but ho has to pay tax on Id*.in [tho £—£& 6s. Bd.. Is.there: any justice in.this tax? .- ■.■- . ', ■ :■ ". , , -,; ■.. ■■ ■ : liicomes under free. .-, <'...:■ -' ■■•• Over £200 up to J;400, Gd. in the £-£$.' Over MOO up to JIGOO.-Od. in the ids. .to il2 10s. • : ...-: v. ... Over £600 up to £1000, Is. in the £—£20 to £32 10s. • -. •■'• ■ . ' Over £1000 up" to £2000, 'is: 6d. in the £—£75 1*• (6--.-eiOT.-10s:. ■■ ■' • ..'■ ■-.-•.■ ■/ .-.- Over £2000 up £3000'. 2s. in tho £—£100ito £207.105. : ) . . ■ _ All over iiOOO.Ss. 6d. in the £.' ■ : '. . . . Penalty i for sending - false return—First' offence, a fin 6 double the amount of the'tai ■aud expenses; for,any subsequent false return, a fine of five times the tax and expenses, and' in addition NOT LESS THAN THREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT without labour, but with strict prison, regulations, because the person who>iokes a large income is aCLEVEK SCHEMER, and makes his income out of other , people's labour,, whether in TOWN or COUN--I'RIT- ' ' •■•■,' ■. ■' *. ,-■ ' . " ";. .. '. * Now; how long will the working farmers and the working men of New Zealand carry the burden of taxation for - the : benefit ot the CLEVER SCIIIiMERS?. - , ,| Also, have the following Land Tax made:— Owner or-owners of-4000 acres third-class land—Free. , , -. v. :.. . ~ , : .. All over WOO acres—Tax. . ■ ... ; Owner or owners ■ of; 2000: acres' second-clase land—Free. ... ■ ,: : . -. .-...-. . ■All over 2000 acres—Tax. : , ■■.■"■ - Owner or owners oMOOO acres first-clws land —Free. . • • '.-..■ All over, 1000 acres—Tax. .'v. Alai.'thb following alteration in the CustomV larin: — . . ■ . v . ... , AH Tobacco of every description—Free of All articles of Focd that cannot, he GROWN in the'-Colony—Free of duty. ' < ■.-. '■ ■ ; For the working Farmer, the Government- to snrvey in good districts and form main roads and to let on a ten years' lease on a rental of 5 per cent, up te two,hundred acres, the'first four years rent iiee, but. certain improvements must be. made, dnpg the four years, and-the owner must-not be allowed to eell .under ten year?. ■ .'■ -....':.:.-.... i ... .->■ : ■„ Tours, ete., . J. R..JOHNSTON. ■' N;B.—No exemption .from the Tax. ; Liberal Newspapers please copy. Advtl

mWhL^° u S 0 \ eho s often the-appointment of military attache should have gone to artillerv men. .During the last fev? years practically' every'one of them has been held by' renr* eentahves of the Royal Eegiment-a fact 4ry wi°« Hk" 19 bodyof officers .ivhbS