FINANCIAL PIVOT
POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT.
NO ELECTORAL REFORM THIS SESSION. SILENCE REG ARDING SALES TAX. ——- f (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day, The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes), interviewed! after a meeting of Cabinet, said that the whole session would pivot on the Government’s financial statement. He would give no indication as to what changes in taxation were contemplated, hut said that. all the concessions and reductions asked for would involve some £4,000,000 or £5,000,000.' The Government would have to consider its spending programme before it decided) to reduce its income. • • ■ •"■ The Prime Minister gav!e a non-com-mittal reply when asked if it was intended to reduce' or remove iblie salestax. He would say nothing about the suggested restoration of all or part of'the out in Civil Service salaries.. ; _ Mr Forbes made it clear that there would he no electoral reform this session, not even a system of preferential voting. ' • - j
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 271, 29 August 1935, Page 5
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