CUSTOMS TAXATION.
ANOTHER REFORM OPPONENT. (By Telegraph—Special to Standard.) ELLINGTON, Aug. 18. “Are you going to vote for it?” inquired a Labour member when Mr H. S. Kyle, Reform member for ton, in the House to-night denounced the primage duty as the greatest error in the Government’s new taxation. “No, I am not,” replied Mr Kyle. “I am one of the back-benchers who will stand to what I believe to be right. I was sent here by my electors and will stand by what I stated to them, that I oppose any increase in taxation. I stood for that in 1925 and 1928 and even voted against my own Government on the proposals by Hon. W. Downie Stewart when he was Reform Minister of Finance. The Government knows exactly where I stand as a back-bencher.”
Mr Kyle declared that the primage duty discouraged imports and dislocated trade and could be overcome by spreading smaller taxation over the whole of the goods. He predicted that the Government would adopt the suggestion of Mr Downie Stewart to decrease the tea tax to twopence, which the merchants undertook not to pass on
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 221, 19 August 1931, Page 6
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189CUSTOMS TAXATION. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 221, 19 August 1931, Page 6
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