THE FIRST SHOT
RAGLAN BY-ELECTION
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, This Day.
The Country Party's condidate for the Baglan by-election, Mr. C. A. Magner, opened hig campaign at Te Kowhai last night. Mr. Magner said that the remedy for the present unsatisfactory position so far as the. farm-, eft were concerned was to be fov/nd in the Couiltry Party. There had been great hostility in certain quarters to the formation of the party, but he was certain that the day would come when it would bo a power for good in the land, where there was discontent and dissatisfaction.
Mr. Magner said that the Country Party's aim was to make farming a payable proposition. He advocated a wisely-adjusted income tax on the basis of a man's ability to pay, rather than in proportion to his ability to purchase. Economy was sadly needed in public expenditure. TUB Country Party supported the League of Nations and preferred Treaties to wars. He gave the party's views on defence, anl considered that mobilisation should embrace industrial resources as well as men.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 67, 16 September 1927, Page 8
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176THE FIRST SHOT Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 67, 16 September 1927, Page 8
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