A MISUNDERSTANDING
"FREE OF INCOME TAX” PRIME MINISTER “WILL NOT BREAK HIS PLEDGE.” THE DEBENTURE SCHEME. “I am informed,” said the Prime Minister in tile House of Represents lives yesterday, “that it is being stated by people who evidently misunderstood what I said yesterday regarding free-of-income tax debentures, that I propose to break the pledge made in regard to these debentures and impose taxation upon them. I said nothing of the sort. I will be no party tc tweaking anv pledge.” The Hon. C. J. Parr: You said that yesterday. Mr Massey: Yes: I said that yesterday. I said that I proposed to brine down a scheme for dealing with these debentures which would do no injustice to those peeple who hold tho debentures now.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11303, 31 August 1922, Page 4
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125A MISUNDERSTANDING New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11303, 31 August 1922, Page 4
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