WOOL LEVY DEFEAT
PRINCIPLE OF “TAX” GISBORNE OPINION A brief discussion on the defeat of the bill (to provide a levy on wool for the purpose of financing research took place at to-day’s meeting of the Poverty Bay and East Coast Sheepowners’ Union’s committee. The president, Mr. C. H. Williams, reporting on behalf of himself and Messrs. S. D. Reeves and L. IT. Maclean, who represented Poverty Bay at the federation’s annual meeting said that the Gisborne delegates supported the principle of the wool levy bill, but a motion to oppose the bill was carried in a decided manner. The grounds for the opposition were difficult to understand. Hawke’s Bay delegates svere in favor of the former when the bill appeared last year, but opposed the form in which it appeared this year, and they would not give any indication of whether they would support the principle. Mr. F. E. Humphreys: I think the feeling is strongly against the bill. Mr. Williams: Is the opinion against ,the bill, or against the principle? Mr. Humphreys: Against the principle of placing a tax on wool. Mr. Williams pointed out that the proposed levy was not actually a tax, and some better game should be secured for it.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18551, 10 November 1934, Page 5
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205WOOL LEVY DEFEAT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18551, 10 November 1934, Page 5
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