CATHOLIC PRIESTS
NOT EXEMPTED FROM LEVY
(_,y Telegraph —-Per Press Association)
WELLINGTON, August 11
The Minister of Labour (Mr Smith) in a statement to the House, to-day, said that in the report of the Dominion Conference of the Protestant Political Association, it had been stated obje c tion was taken to the privileges extended to the Roman Catholic Church in the direction of exemption for. priests and Marist Fathers and Brother;' from payment of the unemploymentlevy.
He declared that-it was not correct to say that special privileges had been extended to . the Roman . Catholic Church. There was a special exemption for which provision was made in the Board’s regulations, in cases ol those members of religious bodies who had surrendered all personal properly to the church. Hon. Mi- Smith said that under this class application for exemption had been received from Marist Brothers, Mormon Elders, and Ministers of the Church of Latter Day Saints. There .was no exemption for a man whose connection with the church "> ,s 11111 “ lv that of a priest.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1931, Page 6
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