LAND VALUE TAXATION

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21985, 8 January 1937, Page 13

LAND VALUE TAXATION

TO tSE editob OP ™ PBESS - T rvßeean in ‘‘The Press SiTt—f* 3VS . “The object of land d Monday ?ay s - rf ld t0 assert.and value taxahonisWO gh t- of everybod y - secure country, and to se- »>* ; nd cqulto V«f P ublic ffbehever in the graduated )/ lam not a belief eithep> We land prepared to pay our ffHiisssrss^ o i?.s & Un L?er farms can use machinery to Th ereatef extent. Labour for our 2 harder to procure and pay is farß lf hicher Our costs have rocketed labour is seeking positions ?sthe towns; even farmers’ sons will on the farms but are off to ihl towns, where hours of labour are few£ conditions of work better, and P rh!fstogle lax is not the remedy for DoWical ills. Mr O’Regan S another guess coming. We farmers Mve discarded as useless good maffis of 40 years ago. Those old daw of -Henry Georgo have gone for - ev L The problem is how to keep the oeople on the land and the land In profitable occupation. Note the numbers who arc seeking debt ad- | iustment. I wonder what amount of 1 cash the lawyers will • collect out of 1 the distress in the farming .community?— Yours, etc., - - - T. E. PEARSON. Hororata, January 5, J. 937.