TKOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
THE WRONG TITLE. / Describing ns arrant nonsense, the ’ - Opposition Leader’s suggestion that the supertax was a single tax, Afr >H. E. Holland said Mr Coates had ai mitted lie did not expect the Lu-bour party to vote for his no-confidence amendment. It was clear the amendment was a party, gesture to the big landowners, and a worm on the hook baited to catch the small farmer if he could. As 1750 farmers only owned land over £12,500 unimproved value, . arid the president-of the Farmers’ Uri- \ . ion had suggested that this meant a capital value of £25,000, he could not imagine a small farmer being affected. / It was quite clear that the Reform party was pleading the wealthy man’* case*
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1929, Page 4
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123TKOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1929, Page 4
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