UNPAID NATIVE RATES.
to FARMERS URGE ACTION. [BX TXLECIura.— PBES3 ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The fact t&at native landowners do not pay rates has ever been a sore point with farmers. At to-day's conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union Mr. C. K WUson (Piopio) moved that the union cooperate with local bodies in connection with the rating of native lands, and that the Native Land Act should be amended in order to see that native lands paid their fair share of taxation. Mr. Wilson said the local body on which he sat had to pay the charitable aid rate, bnt it did not collect money from tie natives. That was unfair. Mr. W. D. Lysnar, M.P., strongly l pnpporte4 tie motfonj which wjaa carried.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17844, 27 July 1921, Page 6
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124UNPAID NATIVE RATES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17844, 27 July 1921, Page 6
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