Prosperity and Taxation

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6670, 25 July 1928, Page 6

Prosperity and Taxation

f Just how the Ministers are going to get rid of Parliament in the first week of October, however, remains to be seen. The Prime Minister is pledged to give a “fair run’’ to the Licensing Bill, the Bible-in-Schools’ Bill, the Summer-Time Bill, and a number of other Bills of equal consequence, and the Minister of Finance will not be ready.until two or three weeks hence with his Budget, which this year, if members are not too deeply engrossed in their electioneering, will be very eagerly examined and discussed. Ministers were proclaiming from one end of the Dominion to the other during the recess that the financial outlook had much improved during the year and that there were other signs of returning prosperity ahead. Words to a similar, effect were put into th'e mouth of His Excellency the GovernorGeneral in the Speech he delivered at the opening of Parliament, and they were reiterated by Ministers during the debate on the Address-in-Reply. Parliament will not be justified in proroguing until those glad tidings are reflected in a reducion of taxation.