THE WAR AND WAR TAXATION
i ADDRESS BY MR ATMORE. " 5 AXTr-CONSCRDPTTON - MOTION" £ PASSED. -- ?■ j (Umixsd P&MS assckuioh.) - £ , WELI/INGTOTST, May 30. ■; 'Mr H. ex-member for Kelson. a" largo meeting in the Town '-Hall on the sußject of "The War and IWar Taxation." ! "i. " At the conclusion of the address, the '; s following motion, proposed by Mr P. Q. -Webb, member for Grey, was carried : '"That this meeting requests the National j . Government to prove its representative "name by taking immediate steps to re- . ~lfeve the people from the cruel pressure * of the excessive cost of In. ing, by fixing "-prices and placing war taxation on war ,'profiters." A further motion T>y Mr H. Holland •'was carried, "That, in'view of the fact that the voluntary system lias not failed, meeting condemns the conscription 'Bill now before , the House of Representatives as one of the worst forms of Prus■'sian militarism."
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Nelson Evening Mail, 31 May 1916, Page 6
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