THE REFORM LEAGUE.
PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE. .—J.: : Per. Press Association. . -|\/ . • - ...
.. Auckland,\Jime 4. I Tl)d Provincial Conference of ,the Reform League gaiid ,'that their opponents! had described me 1 fyorease.in the Graduated Land' Tax jl'g 41 • sham'"and a delusion, yet the increased revenue from land taxation amounted to £81,500, and was mostly due to tlifi Operation of the graduated tax. The Government had spent £50,000 on Workmen's homes, in. addition to advknes made ; to workers. No less than 250,000, acres <sf land Jn various parts of the Dominion hail been settled within the last, twelve >jnonths. In the last few weeks they had completed arrangements for the purchase of a further 120,000 acres. The credit of the Dominion was firmly established among London financiers, and for that changf the Government was partly responsible.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 4, 5 June 1913, Page 8
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131THE REFORM LEAGUE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 4, 5 June 1913, Page 8
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