THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 196, 20 July 1937, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

•EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD. ’ JULY 20, 1907. The graduated land tax legislation had provided for a tax of 8s per cent, on properties worth £40.000 unimproved value, nsincr thousand by thousand in un'form increments of one-fifth of one shilling per cent until the maximum of £200,000 (unimproved) had been reached, when it would be £2 per cent,. Jo this scale there had boon added an additional rate of to per cent, of the scale rate. The object ol tlie legislation, it had been stated, was to induce closer settlement. . An agreement had been reached in _t ne Taranaki dairying industrial dispute. Ihe wa"os of a buttermakef bad been fixed at °£3 2s 6d for a third-class factory, unto £3 12s 6tl for a first-class factory. The wapfC? of a first assistant in a clicesc factorv bad been fixed at £2 15s. Workmen on the Anokland-Ppnrose railway hod gone on strike because a steam rock drill bad been installed. Machinery, it had been slated, wolnd he strongly opposed on the ground that it would affect the labour market. At a meeting at Terrace End it had been decided to recommend the Borough Council to alter the name of the suburb to “Te Rangi.”