BUTTER TAX CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1916, Page 7

BUTTER TAX CASE.

FURTHER ARGUMENT. . JUDGMENT RESERVED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 28. Eni'ther argument was heard by Hie full Court in connection with the summons under the Declaratory Judgments Act to test the validity of the Order-in-Council in ' connection with the prohibition of the export of butter and cheese. Ihe Solicitor-General said there was 1 r,<> ulterior motive in the Order-in-Coun-cii. It was purely and simply an attempt to regulate the export of buttertut, so as to maintain an adequate stock in ihe country. The Chief Justice: Tim whole object I is to retain a certain quantity in the ennntrv. which would otherwise leave. / | 'the Solicitor-General: Yes. 3 The Chief Justice: Then why do you Inot do that? It is not what you are doing; the Order-in-C'ouneil is doing something else. It seems to me that there are half a dozen ways in which it suilil be done, but I am not competent to j:ive advice to the Hoard of Trade. The Solicitor-General said that several pre posed schemes had been very carefully considered by the Board of' Trade, and the present method was chosen as ihe most preferable. An Ordcr-in-Coun-nil could not be used to impose taxIntion, as suggested by Mr. Myers, but merely in a genuine effort to restrict the exports. Judgment was reserved. (