FARMERS’ DIFFICULTIES
RELIEF FROM LAND TAX SOUGHT APPEAL TO THE GOVERNMENT. WELLINGTON, August 4. A largely attended meeting of Methven farmers carried a resolution requesting the Government to grant immediate relief from the land tax, especially the 1929 amendments. otherwise many farmers and pastoralists would be com pelled to leave their farms. A further resolution was carried—- “ That falling Government action the assistance of the Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Farmers Union amt the Sheepowners’ Federation be obtained in initiating a- campaign to persuade Parliament and the country generally that unless some measure of relief is afforded to the farming community the primary industries must inevitably fail, bringng about the downfall of tlie Do minion.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 4039, 11 August 1931, Page 32
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