WAITAKI NATIONALIST
WALMATE, 2nd October
Mr. G. Barclay, National candidate (or Waitaki, addressed a good meeting to-night.' Ho said he favoured fusion on reasonable grounds, but thought it imu'obable, if against the interest of '.rusts, which ho contended dominated she Reform policy. • The present taxation, he said, was grossly unfair, but the only recommendation of the commission adopted were fn tho moneyed interests. A graduated tax was, ho said, the fairest, but ho preferred the commission's recommendation to lax farmers' incomes alone. He advocated incensed settlement, better rural education, and agricultural colleges, no alteration in liquor laws, reafforestation, 'State and agricultural banks, and more expenditure on pubic works in the South Island, as tho North was getting ;he majority. A voLo of confidence was passed.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 82, 3 October 1925, Page 9
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