DRASTIC REMITS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17249, 3 May 1930, Page 16

DRASTIC REMITS

MR. EUSTACE LANE’S SCHEMES 'Herald Correspondent.) Since the last meeting of the Wairoa branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, Mr. Eustace Lane lias given notice of the following motions to lie discussed at the.annual meeting, and a casual 'dance suggests that a lengthy meeting is in prospect:— “ (1) That the piactice in New Zealand of permitting men to lake up and improve land constitutes a fraudulent practice or confidence trickery, in that 'by his cenius, l>v his experience, with his hard work and capital, having made two blades of grass grow whore one grew before, he is told that the increased value of the land constitutes a communitycreated fund, and is taken from him in the form of taxation on unimproved values.

(2) That the term ‘unimproved values.’ ns anplied to rural land, is so indefinite and variable as to be mythical and impracticable of application for taxation mirposes, and that it he abolished. and income tax be substituted for land tax.

“ 13) That if anv man. Maori or nnkoha, is not making sufficient and proner use of his land, or is allowing noxious weeds to spread and contaminate other lands, the Slate shall have the right to ta'-e the land at the price indicated bv the vab’e produced on which income D>x is paid. “ 141 That (lie Government of New Zealand, having decided to take land development out of the. hands of private enterprise, private enterprise should He encouraged to take the risk of any railway construction, which the Government, for various reasons, is not prepared to take. “ (5) That in the opinion of the Dominion conference of the New Zealand Farit ers’ Union a trade agreement should lie ne...gntiated between the Dominion of New Zealand and the United States of America: the basks of such agreement heitun a measure of free, trade, wherebv meat. woo), butter, and cheese produced : n New Zealand shall he admitted at the .I’a/uftr ports of the United States free of all duty, in return for the free admission into New Zealand of motors and motor spirits produced bv the United States: and that the mover be appointed bv this union as a delegate to Washington to negotiate preliminaries on the above lines whi'di mav I’c acceptable to It<o Government of New Zealand and the Government of the United Slates,”