"A WASTE OF MONEY"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 22, 19 October 1937, Page 7

"A WASTE OF MONEY"

Chamber of Commerce and New State Works Brief reference to various big works now being undertaken by the Government and which were considered to bo waste of money was made at the monthly meeting of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce last evening when the qucstion %of taxation, and in partieular the saies tax, was under consideration. A South Canterbury remit to the fortheoming conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce urging Ihe abolition of the saies tax, or famng this, that it be progressively reduced, was read and prompted Mr Hedley Harvey to comment that if the Government did not derive revenue from this means then it would get it some other way. "They'U get it just the same," he said. "But they want it only because of their wasteful expenditure," said the chairman, Mr Hugh W. C. Baird. who said that a lot was made of the "use of public credit" aud all it was used for was to build new offices and to embark upon .wasteful schemes. A meuiber: Such as building a railway station fit for London. "What could be more ridiculous than that crossing that is being constructed near Waipukurau?" asked Mr E. S. Candy. " There 's no neeessity for all the money that is being spent on that to be wasted as it is." Mr W. H. Wood: There/s another iiear Dannevirke where the crossing is visible for miles.