A SOUTH ISLAND VIEW
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
INVERCARGILL, This Day.
Commenting on the reintroduction of the graduated land tax, Mr; G. A. Hamilton, president of the Southland Branch of the Farmers' Union, said it would mean the compulsory subdivision of many back-country holdings. In the end farmers would be called on to pay more through the tax than by increased overhead charges. This form of tax would bear heavily on many of these holdings and it seemed to him that it had been introduced to force the cutting up of these estates. The demand for land at present was not sufficient real to justify subdivision and probably that demand would not improve until the Dominion could either obtain greatly increased population or there were much more attractive prices for farm produce. Land that could be intensely cultivated was being subdivided as rapidly as there was demand for it. The tax, therefore, could have no other effect than to increase the farmers' burden a little more.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 10
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169A SOUTH ISLAND VIEW Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 10
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