Mr. James Clarke, a well-known pastoralist, pearl- shelter, and racehorse owner, in giving evidence before the Federal Taxation Commission in Brisbane, said that land in Queensland was worth less to-day than in 1910. He urged that there should be no tax at all on land producing sheep, cattle, or agricultural produce. Incidentally, be produced a photograph, showing his son's pearling fleet laid up, and said this involved a loss of £4090. He also showed the Commission a pearl which 1 had been valued nt £lO,OOO, and was fit, ‘ as be said, for a place in a royal diatlejn, but was only worth £BOO at P r igafr
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 July 1921, Page 9
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107Page 9 Advertisements Column 4 Taranaki Daily News, 30 July 1921, Page 9
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