N.Z. Living Costs Claimed To Be Low By Labour Speaker
Sixty-five people gave,the Labour candidate, Mr Godfrey Santon, an attentive hearing in the St John Hall, Opotiki, on Monday night, the Mayor of Opotiki, Mr T. G. Johnson, presiding. The meeting passed a vote of thanks to the speaker.
Mr Santori compared living costs .in New Zealand with those of South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the U.SIA., claiming that ours are the lowest of all. Referring to the National Party's claim that private enterprise could bring down costs, Mr Santon freely admitted that was so. Under present law there was nothing to prevent it, since price, control fixed maximum prices only. Mr Holland, he said, had announced a scheme whereby the family home could pass from a deceased husband to a widow without death duties. However, the position now ' was that widows did not have to pay any death duties on their husbands' estates unless such estates exceeded - /Mr Santon spoke at Waioeka yesm rday afternoon, .at Otara last night, and will speak at Woodlands 1 tonight.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 67, 23 November 1949, Page 5
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