The Estimates will provide a grant >f £2OO for the Shipwreck Relief So;iety of New Zealand. A Harbors Consolidation Bill will bo introduced this session, but the matter of harbor boards representation will be dealt tvith in a separate measure. At a special meeting of the North Canterbury executive of the Farmers’ Union the following resolutions were carried unanimously:—That in view of the largo annually recurring surpluses any increase in direct taxation b, unnecessary. That the proposal to differentiate between the owners >f city properties and the owners of sountry'lands to the great disadvantage of the letter is at once anorna’ous and unjust. That no further increase in the graduated land tax. should be imposed unless it is accompanied by a corresponding increase in the income tax.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2151, 6 August 1907, Page 3
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