THE PROPERTY TAX. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin Tuesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1237, 3 June 1880, Page 3

THE PROPERTY TAX. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin Tuesday.

At the Chamber of Commerce to-day, in reference to the Property Tax, Mr R. Wilson moved — "That the Chamber is of opinion that granting the necessity of the property tax in the present condition of the colonial finances, it is greatly to be desired that it should be made to bear equally upon every class of the community, and he rendered as little vexatious aa possible, its mode of collection, and that to this end — 1. Exemptions sho'tild be reduced to £200 of value in money, or in moveable property. 2. That all personal property, clothing, trinkets, and working men's tools of trade should be especially exempted. 3. That each person should be required to make only one return to the Government cover all his property within the colony." The Chamb r, by a large majority, resolved that, in the view oi the necessity for increased taxation, as well as reduced expenditure ; that the tea and sugar duties be increased to their originafamount ; that a tax o f Gd per gallon be levied on colonial beer ; that education fees be reimposed ; and that all subbidies to local bodies should coase, as from tlie end of the current financial year ; and further that the property tax be repealed.