THE SINGLE TAX.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 950, 18 October 1910, Page 6

THE SINGLE TAX.

'■" The • Single. Tas ;, .'■ future to be. called:,the...Land .Values;. Leagues-held a dinner at the, Hotel Cecil last night for/the double purpose of .celebrating the anniversary; of • the birth ,of. Henry George and,. welcoming /-Mr., Arthur .-Withy,' who: has come;.from.'' England ;■ to., conduct a platform campaigri/throughout/Niew/Zealand in the interests of-land value fax'a-; tion., About' 60 .genUemen,assembled'under the .'ohairriianehip ,of' Mr.' '"■;' P...; J. O'Eegan (president).'. ... :;/;':'■-'' V ; In proposing ./.'The' Memory .of "Henry. George," ;the phairman said- : that .in this oountry,: cbm'pulsbry./.larid, purchase/had failed,, and. cpmpulspry leasing: was .about to :be : tried,;; but .-'single-taxers , believed.' in neither; arid still wanted,land value taxation.- ;.-• •■''.;•■ /•■:' .;::;,--''■•'.

: Mi, i. W.'Hogg.M.P., responding to the; toast',-'.-of • fTariiament,"/ which'-. hail been proposed- by';.'.Mr.'/.J; 'Bru'ton,' said he, was. glad. the name..' of/"Single Tax League" . was, to be .dropped.'; :■ He, dared not ; faoe a-' meeting : of .his/ constituentsand call:himself a single-taxer. "He "did not believo in 'a''single :- ,taxj- .and■:;' he thought.- his ;hear«ia wanted /something more than',tho.'6he,.fcax. (No,-no.) /They v/anted/a/igbddanoom'e tax./ CS«'ar,.-hear, and 'dissent).-. ; ,' They wanted. to: perpetuate and increase the death : duties, ■ and to get ■'■'at the inordinate /incomes''/ of" / the banks . and the, huge: l dividends/ of the, insuranoe xbmpanies, and . tax, them/so that- th'ey,,.wauld be glad/to. escape from New Zealand•;and ■■ leave, their- businesses behind to/be-controlled the Government, which/would do/it just as well as they.': '■-■■ ■■: \ !*.y:y. ■■•;■ ■-■ ','■:-::''/'.-' '.-'■ Mr..D.-M'liaren./M.P.',.said .'that the change 'of the. league's ;name,: ■'accompanied/with/a. broadening 'of 'its/basis, would enable Labour.'party, to. co- : operato'more fully with it.- ■•■.-; :':■■■, ■Mr. G. Laurenson, M.P.V'also./respond-ed-'to; the' toast./ ■'..'.'..v.." ,':' V ■'/.. ."■;/'■ 'Mr.' /Withy, the toist of/whose health was. enthusiastically, honoured, - said thsy must tax either land values ot industry values.' .. To .tax- industry values was to tax labour, but. to tax land ..values was to tax-'those who -were/'already ,taxing labour, 'and if sufficiently'' extended', ■ it would prevent them..doing 50.../,; ;■