POLITICAL NEWS.
The Minister of Lands will introduce a Consolidating Land Bill early m the session. There will be some amendments, but they will be, to a great extent, of a technical character. Mr Ballance, however, propo3eß,to ask that the area to. be set apart for special settlements each year shall be increased from 100,000 to 200,000 acres. '
There is an idea current that if the Government, as is expected, have to propose increased taxation, it will be m the nature of an increased duty on tea and sugar, and increase m the property tax. The first would quite chime m with Sir Julius Vogel's desire to force on the production of sugar m New Zealand, and m regard to the latter, his denunciation of the property tax having made it uhpleasant to acknowledge that it is a fair, cheap, and good way of raising revenue, he will probably, for the sake of making some alteration, propose that improvements be exempted, but as he wants je* venue he will have to make the tax so much the more m the £ ; m order 'to make up for what he loses by this exemption.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1, 29 May 1885, Page 2
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