MOTHER COUNTRY.
IEVY ON CAPITAL. EMIGRATION OF FARMERS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Beceived Sept. 7, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 5. Mr. J. R. Clynea (Labor M.P.), speaking at Pontcfract, said that Labor intended to lighten the burden of taxation on the poorer classes by the immediate dischargo of the greater part of the nation's indebtedness through a capita! levy. The subdivisional sales of large landed estates at inflated prices had aroused fears among t,lm tenant farmers, particularly in wert Lancashire, for, if' the rents are raised, profitable farming will become impossible when normal conditions of marketing return. Consequently the fanners, in steadily increasing numbers, are considering the prospects t of settling abrond. and with the view of securing first-hand information in reference to New South Wales' irrigation sehemes Mr. H. J. Neale, a prominent west Lancashire farmer, has sailed for Sydney on behalf of twenty or thirty neighbors.—Aua. N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1919, Page 5
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151MOTHER COUNTRY. Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1919, Page 5
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