BAITING THE SMALL FARMER.
.The Hon. G, FowlcLs is., at a- joss to know why the Prime Minister proposes to increase the land tax exemption i'rom £SOO to £IOOO. His own com-'mon-serise : should have taught ■-•: him that this is purely and simply a scheme to capture the support of the small farmer. The bait, however, is not sufficiently enticing- There are few farmers, nowadays, working farms of a. capital value of less than £IOOO. And the Government has its own special means of converting a farm valued at £SOO to-day into one wortih £ISOO two years hence. The proposed concession is nothing more hor loss than a myth. It- willnot affect, one farmer .in ten thousand for any length of time. But it serves its political purpose in tiie meantime.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10581, 12 March 1912, Page 4
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130BAITING THE SMALL FARMER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10581, 12 March 1912, Page 4
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