FARMERS AND THE WAR TAX

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 151, 28 June 1915, Page 8

FARMERS AND THE WAR TAX

A multitudinous array of subjects is set down for discussion at the forthcoming annual conference of th© Now Zealand Farmers' Union. Some of them are old friends, and the range of subjects is very varied. Land laws, weed-infested lands, _ nalionaj endowment lands, land valuation, railway matters, Customs tariff, and many other questions will be discussed. Taxation for war purposes has not been overlooked, and doubtless an animated discussion will be evoked by the following remit by Pelorus Sounds: — "That this conference is strongly of th© opinion that a war tax on the land only, or a war tax on the imports and exports, places the Dominion's share of the cost of the war almost solely on the producer, he being the sole exporter and the largest importer, thus creating- a class tax, and assuming that the present 6ystem of general taxation is fair to the whole community, being the oareful thought of years, it should be bo increased as to cover all expenses relating to the war." There are six other remits also dealing with war taxation.

News by the last San Francisco mail shows that Mr. Colin Carr, of Rotorua, and a nephew of Nurse E. E. Walker, of Marion-street, Wellington, has received an appointment by the British Government as an inspector in the large works at Butler, a few miles from Pittsburg, where steel shells and shrapnel are manufactured. He is "one 1 of three inspectors in the works. About fifty patients in Trentham Camp were to day removed to the Wellington Golf Club's premises at Heretaunga, the use of which has been kindly placed at the disposal of the authorities. Tha nltib'A *s*ff h** *!a« huco. t*koa ovtfi