FEDERAL LAND TAX
DEPUTATION TO MB FISHER.
CHALLENGE TO INVESTORS.
(Received Last Ndgbt, 10.59 o'clock.)
LONDON, June 14
The Hon. Andrew Fisiher, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, in the course of a reply to a deputation wbich waited upon him in reference to the Federal land tax, declared that investors were unable to produce evidence to show that the Labour legislation of the Commonwealth had depreciated the Australian credit. Production was never greater, land settlement was increasing, and there was iwr evidence of the crushing effects of lgdsLataon. The land tax had not lowered land values. The High. Court could be relied upon <to safeguard the interests of those affected. Mr Fisher strongly Objected to the attacks which were being made upon Australian legislation.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10263, 15 June 1911, Page 5
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124FEDERAL LAND TAX Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10263, 15 June 1911, Page 5
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