TOO FULL OF HOLES
RATING SYSTEM CONDEMNED.
‘The rating system should go. There is no logical reason for its retention. The garment is too full of holes to be worth mending so for heaven’s sake let us burn it.” In these terms Mr. A. E. Robinson, provincial secretary ot the New Zealand Farmer’s Union, condemned the Dominion local body rating system when recently addressing the Dargaville branch of the union.
Ihe system was an English Institution, the speaker explained, and had been adopted by the Dominion from the oid country, when there had been need for it in the days of the feudal system. However, it had been done away with in England just this year
an-i it was time that the same thing v. as done with it in New Zealand, “It is not fair or just that the farmer should be required to bear the bulk of loading expense when the roads are used by everybody,” said Mr. Robinson. Roading should be provided by direct taxation. Since the year 1913, said Mr. Robinson, the ratio of rates collected to county populations had increased enormously.
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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 48, 13 November 1929, Page 6
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