SALES TAX ON POLES
In reply to Mr E. S. Brewster, Mr N. A. Davidson (engineer) reported to the Waitaki Electric Power Board yesterday that if the board sold a concrete pole, sales tax would have to be paid on the whole of the output from thq board’s factory. The board was not selling concrete poles, and where a farmer required poles for lines they were erecting hardwood poles. The board itself, said Mr Davidson, could easily absorb the whole of the factory’s output on its own lines. The secretary (Mr C. F. Jones) reported that the secretaries’ branch of the Power Boards’ Association was taking the matter up. A system of hiring or collecting rent on poles for an indefinite period was quite useless to a board.
Mr N. H. Colquhoun commented that if the board sold a single pole it would increase the cost of all poles manufactured by 20 per cent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25560, 13 June 1944, Page 7
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