EFFECTIVE SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER
|*■ ■ o ; CRITICS CONFUTED. LIBERALISING THE INCOME TAX.
The House of . Representatives met at 8.30 p.m. yesterday. NOTICES OF QUESTIONS. Mr.' G. HUNTER (Waipawa) gave notice to ask tlio Minister for Railways whether lio ,will consider tho advisability of-amending the regulation which pro-., vides that railway employees in the sec-* ond division, -who aro absent on sick leave for a period of not more than fourteen days, have the time they are so incapacitated .deducted- from- the term- ot their annual'leave. • ... Mr. H. J.--H. OKEY (Taranaki). gave notice to" risk'' tiio Minister, for Railways whether he"would 'arrange-to- have on- all trains- carriages in which- women and children should have preference.. Dr. A'. If; 'NEWMAN (Wellington East) gave notice to risk .the. Government whe r ther ther would'brine:in legislation .to Biipport the building regulations in boroughs in order to prevent the great, national waste by fire. .' POLICE OFFENCES BILL. The Hon. A. L. lIERDMAN (AttorneyGeneral)' gave notice of his intention to introduce the Police Offences Amendment Bill. ; ■ -.. ; -; • * The following B-ills wore read a first time:—Defamation Bill, (Mr. Herdman), Napier Harbour Board -Empowering and Loan, Bill (Mr..- .Campbell). . FORESTRY COMMISSION'S REPORT., The PRIME MINISTER tabled the report of'the Forestry Commission. , In answer to Mr. Ell, he statud that he would have pleasure in affording members an opportunity of .discussing .the report. Ho -oonsidered. it'one of the most' important reports -ever laid before -Parliament. TWO IMPORTANT BILLS. - INCOME-TAX EXEMPTION. The' Land and Income Tax' Assessment Amendment Bill' and the Police lorcp Amendment Bill were liilioduMtl by Governor's Message,'and read a first time. Mr G M. THOMSON (Dunedin North) asked tho : Minister for Finance to explain the provisions of the Land and income Tax Bill. vr™- • 1 J.I i- ii The Hon. JAS. ALLLIn said that the Government 1 had' decided to liberalise the income-tax measure by making provision for a. larger' exemption m the cap ot those who had : children. (Hear,/ hear.) The law as it stood made no special'provision for a man who had children. Jlhere was an income-tax exemption ot .MUU, which applied to anyone; whether they bad children or not.. The' Government considered that a.man,who had children should receive: some consideration. Mr. Russell: What age? ■ Mr. Allen: "Up to.theage of 16 years. It was proposed to grant an additional exemption of-,i>25 for each child, under sixteen, uj> to four children, rh'i 'maximum exemption under the proposal would thus bo a further .£IOO. Provision was also made for joint incomes. When a man's aggregate income derivable from land and income exceeded .6700, ; the additional exemption now proposed would not apply. -The Bill, in addition to this, mado provision for tho obtaining of. info'nnatibn from banks with'reject to the incomes of depositors.' The existing-legal provisions in this respect had hitherto not; been operative, and wheii tho present Government came into office» the Departmental officers had drawn his attention to the fact. Nothing had been done in the matter until quite recoiitly,. when lie had met -representatives ,o£ the banks. These institutions were 'not raising tho same '.objection to the clause as formerly, and it would become operative as from April 1. This was one reason for bringing down tho Bill somefrhat'.early. Another clfiuse in ithe Bill' provided that local authorities having money on' deposit, as well as banks and private companies, similarly placed, ■ must furnish particulars of these , deposits to the Income Tax Department when required to do so.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN DUNEDIN.' Mr. T. K. SIDBY (Dunedin South) asked tho Minister for Public Works if he was iu tv position to make any statement to tho House as to tho number of men who are out of employment iu Dunedin, and what steps he-proposes to take to meet the difficulty. The Hon. W. FRASER, in reply, said ho was in possession of no information whatever on the subject. He had no information that ho could consider official as to there being any unemployment in Dunedin >of■■ a serious character.- Ho .did not say "it was not so. When he heard of the rumours ho had put himself into communication with his officers, and district engineer, so as to ascertain what particular works could employ men, and he was awaiting this information.. When he was informed;' hp\\' ;.manyjmen there, were needing -work- ho hoped,to have the desired information as to how many' could le used on the roads.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1803, 16 July 1913, Page 8
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