TIMBER LEVY
ASSISTING LOCAL BODIES SOME RELIEF NECESSARY ( THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON. Friday. The necessity for assistance to local authorities by a timber levy, as provided in the Finance Bill, was emphasised by the Hon. A. D. McLeod, who agreed to ask that the proposed Id a 100 ft be reduced to id. Based on the country’s requirements of 340,000.000 ft. he said this amount would provide the £7,000 considered necessary to relieve some county councils of heavy rates, particularly hospital rates. At present some councils were embarrassed, and their hospital rates reached lid in the £. A further rise would be necessary if relief from timber was not provided. This levy, which was based upon timber actually milled, was more equitable than the old flat rate which was paid on all timber, some of which could not be economically milled now.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 7
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142TIMBER LEVY Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 7
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