REFERENDUM WANTED
PENSIONS AND HEALTH.
FARMERS' UNION DISCUSSION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. A remit that a referendum on the proposed national' health and superannuation scheme should be taken at the general election, was adopted at the annual conference of the Farmers' Union.
Mr. P. J. O'Regan, junior (West Coast), who moved the remit, said the amended social security scheme involved not only a tax of 1/ in the pound on income, but aleo a contribution of about £9.000,000 from the Consolidated Fund.
"Before the country submits to further raids on ite earnings, it should have an opportunity of saying whether it wants the scheme or not," he said. "It would probably cost 3/ in the pound on the earnings of the producer.
Mr. W. A. Sheat (Taranaki) said the Government should be asked before the election how the Consolidated Fund was going to be built up by ?xtra taxation to stand the drain on it. If the social security legislation were put through this session, he pointed out, the full taxation necessary to build up the Consolidated Fund need not be dis-Mosed until next year's Budget was brought down. ■. '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 165, 15 July 1938, Page 11
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190REFERENDUM WANTED Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 165, 15 July 1938, Page 11
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