FARMERS DODGE TAXES.
ALLEGED WHOLESALE SHOOTING OF CATTLE. (Received Juno IS at 5.5 p.m.) ADELAIDE, June 18. At the Federal Farmers’ Conference, Mr Roberts (a member of the Queensland Assembly) said that ho knew of one man who had ordered that 2000 of his cows should be shot before .lime if there wore no rain, and 2000 more before August, so as to avoid paving taxation on thorn. Mr Fleming (a member of the Federal House of Representatives) testified that the same thing was prevalent throughout Australia. He added that Hughes had stumped tho Commonwealth urging greater production, and that was the Farmers’ reward for it.
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Grey River Argus, 19 June 1922, Page 2
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