PRIME MINISTER’S HOPE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3792, 9 August 1932, Page 5

PRIME MINISTER’S HOPE

HALT IX TAXATION NOTE OF COXFTDF.XCK XO MORE EMERGFXCV LAWS XFXT SESSION’S WORK Per Press Association. Wellington r August S. “Wo hope to get through the coming session of Parliament without having to impose any more taxation, and I assure you that will' be welcomed by the Government as much as by anyone else,’* .said Premier Forbes in the course of an interview. He said h t; was much, more confident aboil- the future. There would he mu .need for more emergency legislation next session, and Parliament should be able to return to its normal work. Replying to a question a? to whether it- may b, found necessary to make further readjustments in the unemployment relief wages tax, Mr Forbes said he was not in a position to say at the moment what would have to be done in that direction. Naturally any increase would he avoided if possible, but the state of the unemployment funds would have to he gone into before anything could be said.