TOTALISATOR TAX

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1932, Page 8

TOTALISATOR TAX

| REMISSION DEFENDED

REPLY TO LABOUR PROTESTS WELLINGTON, December 9-

A delehc'O’ L of'‘the ’ G°vtiririiV-rit'S cision tO' dA.ntiriue.A*emi , t'sioris'‘'ai' f tota.iXaiof tax Uf< ficemg arid”ticatrrig -clubs ‘hr the. Doriiinloh Wks made in ' the Houori' tO-day -by- the ’' Minister’ for 1 Public ‘Wrirktj (the. R’*. Hon, J; G; ,04ates), !&• reply’td the- Mfc' 'H. T. ArmstiOrig' (Lab., ; Clirist'c'hurch East) and. 0 her" speakers “L’biri “the benches'.

; ’M r Coates said 1 thfc'-general poeitwn of Yttci'Lg.yeiubs'iwks ; (hat- losfee:ri MM ‘VAatfe'Hfo flttr ; ekterit - of ' about 5 dnß fcaShgwSPj&ftljr’ i»SBCO‘. Drily: vithre'e' I 'clubs 1 in'tHe Dominion; had' paid* thfehr Wrfy last ! ye'ar-. f '"- ■' - Mr P. A. de la Perrelle (C., Awarua) : ; Not even three. ’

• 'ln the p£ak yeans, continued: the MilFstei*;' the' State 1 had beeu' dewing up. tov£76o;6eo of taxation ffom. tobalisfitor -transactirinu. In "1951 this'taxation had been : reduced to • fiSrf'WO.' and since then it had'declined' further;

• “Thit • revenue ■ dias fori smany years been the ridst. egg l df ■ Governments, said .Mr Chafes,:, “but thb V ‘resources Wife fast disappearing an'd: we‘ ; had tOconsider whether’racing cduld b? iriaintained under th e existing burden of taxation. In our-own'driterest it was considered, advisable to •' lighten the burdelL’' "•' •‘ K ' .". *

R ! . Semp’e (Lab., Wellington It is’’ aPlrixury'^port. I '''

.t'ltfr Coates’:'lt is 1 '» ■ good -old British; sport; to <sns bf ! thA best r bf' fcfibrfs, , a''d’.'Wc i cdnlrp fio s' lot wbfse in this’ couriiVy. Racing clubs' could 'not 1 catty ofi'if the Guvet-rimeiit taxed th'efri out of existence. .Should 1 the Governmerit' Itarid bf and Watch that ’happen t it’d watch' its- revenue fall?’Tho f’btt was for thy 1 one purposd oU pfeBel Wing 'revenue'; it-Was ribt relief’'givennt the expense of 'people' in distress;, Hut relief “to 1 ensure -that) the Goferhmeut furids “could be 1 iriairitained t!o help them. .Upon Mr Armstrong oalßng for y (I'dfeio'ii the cl.Wu'sp ’in the Finance Ril? arithr Vising’"the remis-Jon Irak" carried by 35 vdtos to 32. .