"WRONG IN PRINCIPLE"

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 10

"WRONG IN PRINCIPLE"

SUPER-TAX (XN~ LAND

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, This Day. The super-tax on land and tho primage duty were discussed at a meeting of the Provincial Executive of the Otago Farmers' Union. The matter came forward in the form of the following remit from the Palmerston branch:— "That this branch enters an emphatic protest against any increase in the land tax, considering that it is wrong in principle and is simply class taxation."

Mr. E. H. Murney said he was against an increase of any kind in taxation. If the Government could not live within Us income there was something wrong. A higher tax made on any class of the community would have a detrimental effect. It would make unemployment worse. If they wanted to get rid of unemployment they should bring about a decrease in taxation.

The motion was 'seconded by Mr. Reid and carried. ; .

A warning that heavy traffic will not bo allowed on the old bridge at Lower Hutt was given when E. Walker was fined £1 and costs at the Lower Hutt Court before Mr. T. B. M'Neil yesterday, for driving a vehicle and. load weighing more f&§3 fea i 2» em. *te bads&