POLITICS IN TASMANIA.
UNIMPROVED VALUE TAX. THE UPPER HOUSE. (BI TELEGRAPH—PRESS, ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) Hobart, July 10. The Premier, in a policy speech, said the time would come when all the States would make a stand against Federal encroachments. _ . He. foreshadowed .an unimproved land tax, and the placing of,the railways under one commissioner. ' Local option would be the first measure dealt with. ' Mr. Evans said that he made no threats against'the Upper, House, but that,if hopes of passing legislation remained unfulfilled the Ministry would have: to seriously consider tho position.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 247, 11 July 1908, Page 5
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