THE SHEEP TAX.
THE FARMERS GRATIFIED. The proposed abolition of the sheep i tax is reckoned: a matter for cbngrar-j' tulation among farmers and members ■ of the New Zealand Farmers’: Union, which has long agitated for relief, are . pleased at the success that has attend”,; ed its efforts. Sir D. Jones, president' of the North Canterbury executive of the Union, informed a reporter that, it was gratifying to find that the Government had" at lest granted what the Union had all along contended for, the; abolition of the sheep tax. It had been ; imposed to provide funtfs for the eradication of scab, which had long ceased to exist. The farmers would appreciate the action of the Government in abol- , isbing what was purely a class tax, andin proving that it desired to deal fairly with one of the colony’s chief industries.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14428, 19 July 1907, Page 2
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141THE SHEEP TAX. Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14428, 19 July 1907, Page 2
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