INCREASED LAND TAX
“MORE THAN THE LAND CAN
PRODUCE.”
Objection to the Government’s lax on land was voiced at a meeting of the General Committee of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association at Palmerston North on Tuesday. “We can’t face i( —it’s more than‘ the land can produce,” declared Mr. J. A. Mitchell, who urged That those in op - position to the tax bind Themselves together to do something through the local bodies to combat the Government’s action.
The president, Mr. J. Linklater, M.P., while hesitating to comment for fear of being charged with introducing politics into an agricultural association, gave his assurance that the position was very serious and that both he and his party wore going to do their best to have something done to place the man mi the land on a more equitable basis. There was, he said, a, great deal of hardship being in-flieted-by the super-tax on land and the lowering of the# exemption on mortgages, *
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40041, 19 December 1929, Page 2
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164INCREASED LAND TAX Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40041, 19 December 1929, Page 2
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