GENERAL ELECTION.
fl*Y TEL KG It APH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION*' RAWER A SEAT. ’ HA AVER A, Nov 4.
Mr G. A’. Pearce, Independent Reform candidate, opened his campaign at Hawera- last night to a packed house. Ho adversely criticised the public expenditure and the present system ot taxation, lie urged that money should he borrowed by the Government and lent to the fanners for productive purposes. Ho instanced methods whereby taxation could he reduced, and where it could lie increased in other tl iris-lions. He advocated the taxation of local body trading concerns. He suggested reducing the minimum for the income tax to £2OO, with a £SO exemption for a wife and for each child. Jit received all attentive hearing and a vote of thanks.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19221106.2.17
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1922, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
125GENERAL ELECTION. Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1922, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in