The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1890.
The big landowners hswe found a fciend at last in an unexpected quartet'. That veteran politician, Mr Henry Bunuy, coup before the public with a programme which is clearly and unmistakeably in their favor, Mr Bunny's address to the electors of the Wairarapa is distinctly framed in their interests and for their - advantage, ami it is evident that if ho bo a to qnd faithful exponent of public opinion there is a good time coming for them, His charter is expressed in tlio following plain and conciso terms:—l, To repeal the Properly Tax Act and to abolish all Customs Dutks,except upon mint, spirits and tobacco, h order to provide for Ik deficiency in the nunnc occasioned by the qiove changes, I should propose a Lund Tax and Income Tax. This is straight into the hands of tho lord of many acres, and were we one of the pastoral princes of the Wairarafia wo should consider it to be to our interest and advantage to vote for Mr Henry Bunny. Is not the pastoral prince a large consumer and a ho&vy purchaser of dutiable articles in the shape of wagon loads of station stores, and on this class of expenditure alone would he not saye quite a. little fortune by the repeal of customs duties which his friend, Mr Henry Bunny, proposes ? Does he not pay too .a gfusliing levy, frequently a cheque amounting to hundreds of pounds under the Property fe Act, a jd does not Mr Henry Bunny some! to'his robC" 0 to relieve liim of this J sore and''grievous' Men? The ■lncome Tax, also which Mr ?!"iny will impose, as soon as lie becomes Premier, won't hurt him, for the Shepherd King has no • income, literally noincomel From an Income Tax Commissioner's point of view there is no levy of this kind to bo squeezed out of station properties. All tho money realised on suoh estates is sunk in fencing, in pedigree stocli, .in grazing, in phosphor> ous and in labor; it goes almost every cent of it : jntp improvements, and the cleverest' income tax collector in the world could not make tho owner show a surplus or a residuum 'which could be called income. In nlnejcasfis out of ten the inquisitive income'tax collector would probably find that the pwtotal niQiinrclj gtvye liim willing
to grasp beyond- a big .overdraft or heavy/mortgage,}' Station propertie would become heritable.'Dead Se fruit to the Colonial Treasuror I W don't. think that a land tax nee frighten .the. pastoral lords either ;M Ballance has just reminded lii Wanganni constituents that h jarried a tax of this kind in 1878. W :ccollect two or three years late isking one of our pastoral lords ko\ ie liked it. Ho replied that ho, di lot mind it in- the least, but shOrtl; ifter it was imposed, Atkinson knocfe t on the head and increased .th ustonis duties, and this increase ii he customs was a heavier burden I dm than Mr Balance's land tax. H igured out 'both on paper, an journed the land tax when it wen nto tho legislative melting pot, Ii ict his expeiience was • that h> ever got off so lightly in the matte f taxation as lie did under the lam [ix. We cannot but believe that ai ltolligent politician like Mr Henr Sunny, who was taking an activ art in publio affairs at the time t fbich we refer, must be fully awar f theso facts, and that he is noi incore in his desire to ameliorat he condition of our big land owners f so, it will bo tho duty of larg inded proprietors to support th andidalure of one who is now pledge o benefit them. There have toe eeii many thoughtful men in th lolony who from time to time hav xpressed sh opinion that the stan lard rate of wages in tho Colon aust come down, but to Mr Henr knny belongs tho credit of pre lounding a policy which must brin. T.down and keep it down. H worl ng men ask some of the pionee ottlcrs of .this district about the rat if wages in old times, they will lean hat they were under five shillings i 'ay, but that whon they were beloi his level there were no oustom .uties on the necessaries of life. Noi Ir Henry Bunny proposes to brini melt that golden time, once moreou toceries andclothingwill be untaxed nd once more the standard rate o rages will sink below fivo shillings! ay. This is the sure and certah esult of the policy proposed by Jli lenry Bunny, and we put it to anj Id settler who remombers the time /hen tho necessaries of life in New lealand were untaxed whether what rehayo said is not absolutely correct, tre wo not then justified in assuming hat Mr Henry Bunny is coming Drward in the interests of the big md holder, and in-suggesting to the itter that they should let bygones ho ygoncs, and rally round their now hainpion.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3626, 29 September 1890, Page 2
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