FLOCK HOUSE SCHEME.
A GRIEVANCE VENTILATED. WANGANUI, March 8. During the visit of Sir James Parr (Minister of Education) to Flock House, the Hon. E. Newman, who was responsible for the establishment of the fund by which the flockmasters of New Zealand helped the dependents of sailors lost during the Great War to be brought to New Zealand and quartered it Flock House, again drew attention to the fact that the Government had deducted £35,000 from the fund in taxation. Flock House was not a private or money-making concern, and it was most unfair and nnjust to tax benevolence. Sir James admitted that the institution was doing State work, and he expressed the opinion that some arrangement might he made, if not by a direct grant, then indirectly. Before going Home he would place his views before the Taxation Department. He concluded bv saying “that the fund should be mulcted in income tax seems to me incredible.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3757, 16 March 1926, Page 86
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157FLOCK HOUSE SCHEME. Otago Witness, Issue 3757, 16 March 1926, Page 86
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