"INIQUITOUS TAX"
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The Unemployment Levy
(Bv Telegrapii-
INYERO " RGILL, Last Night. The abolition of the unemployment levy of £1 a.year was urged in a resolution carried by tlie Southland Provinci'al Executive of tho Farmers' Union to-day. Members described the levy as the mc hated taxation of all. . "It is an iniquitous tax. I do not knOw why. it was levied," said Mr R. Sim. "People are so embittered and prejudiced against it that they pay quarterly instalments of five shillings rather than pay the pound."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 6
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