A PLAGUE SPOT
“LAND GRABBERS PARADISE” MR PERRELLE CONDEMNS TAXATION (Special to the Times.) WELLINGTON, June 22. “With the peace-tax on top of the wartax, New Zealand is becoming known as the economic plague-spot of the British Empire,” declared a South Island member, Mr P. A. de la Perrelle, in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon. Taxation was being paid, he said, at from 8/9 to 7/4 in the £l, and stock and station agents were charging as high as £8 12/6 per cent, to farmers. Mr Perrelle quoted statistics showing the growth of direct and indirect taxation in New Zealand. Direct taxation, her said, now amounted to £9 1/11 per head compared with £lO 10/- in the United Kingdom, £3 6/8 in France, and £2 14/- in the United States. Indirect tax.ation amounted to £4 11/2 in New Zealand, against £3 6/2 in the United Kingdom, £2 10/- in France, and £2 4/- in the United States.
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Southland Times, Issue 18975, 23 June 1923, Page 5
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158A PLAGUE SPOT Southland Times, Issue 18975, 23 June 1923, Page 5
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