TAXATION PROTEST
PRIME MINISTER REPLIES
(Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Aug. C,
Representatives, ol the Union, sheep-owners, the Employers Association, and the- Counties’ Association met the Prime Minister to placebefore him the decisions ol the combined conference. Replying, Mr Forbes said that the present financial position demanded things being clone) that would not have been done in ordinary circumstances. The- petrol tux ol" -fourpence was allocated to Highways Board; that was not to say that any additional, taxation on petrol was the property of the hoard. To -say that there was a vested right in any system of taxation was •unsound. It was necessary that, relief s-ho-ukl bo {oven "to the "Consolidated Fund. The Highways Hoard 1 would not he- affected- in regard to the request for a change- in the incidence of taxation. and he thought they would agree that the present was not the time to make such a change, which would bo a. big thing indeed.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 6 August 1930, Page 9
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158TAXATION PROTEST Hawera Star, Volume L, 6 August 1930, Page 9
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