LAND SETTLEMENT

Southland Times, Issue 21089, 22 May 1930, Page 8

LAND SETTLEMENT

VIGOROUS SCHEME URGED. (Per United Frees Association.) Whangarei, May 21. A committee was set up by the Farmers’ Union yesterday to frame a comprehensive remit embracing all remits on the order paper dealing with land settlement and today it presented the following recommendations which were adopted: That the Government be urged to adopt a vigorous land settlement scheme throughout the Dominion and to enable this to be done we recommend that all taxation of the necessities of life be removed. That all taxation on works and tools and implements production be removed. That steps be taken to amend the banking system to prevent combined action by the associated banks.

That following the precedent in Britain all farm lands be exempt from rates for reading purposes, the deficiency in finance thus created to be made good by increased petrol tax. That any deficiency in the revenue due to the foregoing might be made good by an increase in the following: A tax on licensed houses in proportion to the liquor sold, a small additional tax on all tickets for amusements and the totalisator, an increased tax on luxuries, an increase under income tax, an increased tax on foreign films, an increased tax on foreign cars and trucks and the judicious elimination of waste in the administration of national affairs.