Marists and Unemployment Levy
MINISTER EXPLAINS Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Hon. S. G. Smith, in a statement to tlio House of Representatives, said that in the report of the Dominion conference of the Protestant Political Association it had been stated that objection was taken to the privileges extended to the Roman Catholic Church in the direction of exemptions for priests and Marist fathers and brothers from the payment of the unemployment levy. He declared it was not correct to say that special privileges had been extended to the Roman Catholic Church. There was special exemption, for which provision was made in the board's regulations, in the eases of members of religious bodies who received no salary or income and who had surrendered all personal property to the church. He said that under this class applications for exemption had been received from Marist brothers, Mormon elders and ministers of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. There was no exemption for the man whose connection with the church was merely that of a priest.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6626, 12 August 1931, Page 6
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175Marists and Unemployment Levy Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6626, 12 August 1931, Page 6
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