FARMERS AND TAXATION
DEPUTATION TO THE PREMIER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Aug. 6. Representatives of the Farmers’ Union and the Sheepowners’, Employers’ and Counties’ Associations met the Prime
Minister (Mr. G. W. Forbes) to-day to place before him the decisions of the combined conference regarding the taxation proposed in the Budget. Mr. Forbes said the present financial position demanded things being done that would not have been done in ordinary circumstances. The petrol tax of fourpence was allowed to the Highways Board, That was not to say that •any additional taxation oh fetrol wks
the property of the board. To say that there was a vested right in any system of taxation was unsound.. It was necessary that relief should be given to the Consolidated Fund. The Highways Boadr would not be affected. •
In regard to the request for a change in the incidence of taxation he thought they would agree that the present was no time ..to ; make such a hicb would be a .big’ thing .indeed. < ’.w'‘TJi • *< ”!:'i ■ ath.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1930, Page 16
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