Subsidies ‘must stop’
PA Wellington The National Union of Railwaymen yesterday asserted that what it termed the “huge” subsidies paid to sheep farmers would cause a setback to hopes for wage and salary earners out of talks on a wage-tax tradeoff.
The general secretary of the union. Mr D. G. Goodfellow, said that any subsidies granted sheep farmers should be made by way of a
loan repaid by instalment or
deducted from the estate value of the farmer receiving the subsidy. Before a farmer received a subsidy he should be required to show an actual need. He said there was no doubt the subsidies would cause a setback to wage and salary
earners' expectations from the wage-tax trade-off talks. Mr Goodfellow said the present "hand-outs" could nni be allowed to contin"e.
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Press, 9 February 1982, Page 3
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