(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) The Property Tax. PUBLIC MEETING AT NEWMARKET. Auckland, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1240, 10 June 1880, Page 3

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) The Property Tax. PUBLIC MEETING AT NEWMARKET. Auckland, Last Night.

A public meeting of residents in the Newmarket and circumjacent districts, convened for the purpose of considering the Property Tax, was held last night in the Newmarket Hall. There was a large attendance. Mr Morgan was voted to the chair. Upon the proposition of Mr Jenkins he opened the meeting by reading the ad. vertised notice, and then invited someone to initiate the discussion. Mr Clayton moved the first resolution, viz :: — '* That in the upinion of this meeting, the Property Tax, in its present form, is inquisitorial in its nature and unjust in its operation, and should be repealed. He was not going to say much about the tax. It must, he thought, be obvious to all his hearers that the return that they were required te fill up were so inquisitive as to raise a strong feeling of repugnance towards the tax. If taxation was necessary i; shousd be levied in some less obnoxious and more honorable form. Mr. J. M. Lennox had great pleasure in seconding the proposition, forpie believed it to be an honest and^straightforward statement. As regards the injustice of the impost under notice, he would instance the case of AVaikato farmers who, although in the possession of large farms, were yet, through disease and other causes, carrying: on operations at an inevitable loss. Yet these men would be rendered amenable to this tax to a very large amount. Much discussion ensued, after which— The resolution was put aud carried.