FARMERS' UNION
OPPOSITION TO DUAL TAXATION (by Telegraph— PretM Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Farmers’ "Union yesterday carried a motion, with few dissentients, that the farmers of the Dominion would not tolerate both land and income tax being imposed at the same time; also, that the conference ask the Government to convene a conference of representatives of organisations dealing with and affecSTd by hospital finance with a view to determining a more equitable basis of hispital rating; that the conference deprecates the acCTon of the Prime Minister in increasing the rate of wages for relief work} thereby making it more attractive to unskilled labour with the result that it is drawing men. away from other occupations and accentuating the unemployment problem ; That in the event of any war involving this nation, mob tion shall extend not only to human life, but to all resources, and that machinery for this purpose bo designed at once. This was carried by one vote. ‘
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 26 July 1929, Page 2
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