BUDGET PROPOSALS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19691, 7 August 1929, Page 10

BUDGET PROPOSALS.

1 " a "W — 5 y HAWKEPS BAY RESOLUTJOHfc (1111 l IHfCUIIOI 111 PMK) NAPIBB, A»gW* I The Budget taxation prepomto severely criticised at * wfW " day of the Napier Cluplwf pf meree and the Hawke's Bay Association. The followisj was carried:^'ln view of the high W' y ministering the country we urge the Government to reduce w* of such administration rather th»» y crease, taxation (the incidence (W with advantage be vmw). W*. especially within the Civil B«mW * self, as we are informed by efflewf this Service that eonsidersbla can be effected" . ' The conference further MWW'V "That it be a reeommendatio* W mm- - Government that the prim^eJWy « imported goods, instead of wttf PJ creased to 2 oer cent., be abou#M*«» the primage duty wa« origiifW posed as a war measure onlyi if extra taxation is necessary we JW favourable to a further tax <» _P P* cent, on all foreign importation* w New Zealand, thus assisting tM amm Empire." *

THE LAND TAX.

(PBESS ASSOCUnOB TtTMUAM.) AUCKLAND, A®f«*t •• The Hob. Mr Donald, General, state 3 to-day that til* land tax proposals do not app'7 t 9 properties. The proposal* farm lands, and eity propertiM w»*w exempt. ' Yon cannot burnt properties," he commented.