BRITISH SAILORS’ FUND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15742, 6 February 1922, Page 8

BRITISH SAILORS’ FUND.

\V( H>L-( 1 ROWERS' CHAR ITT TAXED

;rriin Our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The fund established by the woolgrowers of New Zealand from surplus profits totalled £212,C00, which is being utilised for the benefit of British sailors and their dependents, income , tax was (laid to the extent of £35,000 on the original fund, and Mr.'Newman (MArniwnlu) stated in the House on Saturday that the Income Tax Department is now .demanding ■. that payments out, of Die fund to Britain or other countries outside New Zealand shall bear income tax. lie pointed oul that a considerable, portion of the fund would have to he sent out of the country, so Diql this decision of the T axing Department would he a serious harden. The committee, during Die course of their investigations, had discovered a surprising amount of suffering among dependents of the Empire's

li.loi’s. The Prime 'Minister replied that lie

would lie glad to inquire into the posit ion. lie would give a definite reply later. No doubt the Commissioner of Taxes was strictly following the law, and it. might mean that an amendment would have to he passed to meet this special position, as the Government was determined to sec the business of the country through He was referring to th? D'-c'/rtcd Labor stonewall. The House might he sitting for a fortnight, in v., hiv.li i;ir-e a number of new Bills might c m-' forward.