RATE RELIEF.
POSITION OF AGRICULTURISTS. LABOUR AMENDMENT DEFEATED. (Australian Press Association—United Service.) Received 1.20 p.m. to-day. LONDON, June 18. In the House of Commons, Mr. Ben Riley (Labour), during the committee stage of the Rate Apportionment Bill debate, moved an amendment to admit agricultural hereditaments from the relief. Agriculturists, he . said, were already relieved of three-quar-ters of their rates, and further relief meant a total contribution of £19,000,000 yearly from the public purse. Hie Bill did not ensure that the actual, even the cultivating, farmer would receive relief. The closure was applied to thei debate, and the amendment was defeated by 226 to 124.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 June 1928, Page 11
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104RATE RELIEF. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 June 1928, Page 11
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