CLASSIFICATION OF LANDS

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1931, Page 5

CLASSIFICATION OF LANDS

SUGGESTION BY MR. POLSON. INCIDENCE OF LAND TAXES. (By Wire. —Parliamentary Reporter). Wellington, Last Night. Classification of the lands of the Dominion was urged by Mr. W. J. Polson. (Independent, Stratford) when speaking on the Taxing Bills in the House to-night. Mr. Polson said he did not think wealthy aggregators of land, and there were some of them, should entirely escape from the graduated land tax at a time when revenue was needed by the country. There should be some discrimination between the big farmer and the small farmer. Ho could not understand how the Government had come to decide upon the abolition of the land tax without consulting its supporters, and he suggested that further consideration of the proposals should be held over for a day or so in order that further information might bo made available to members. The Labour Party was out for confiscation of land values, and it might as well say so straight-out. The Labour Party was trying to face both ways. His main disappointment so far as the Government’s proposals were concerned was its failure to deal with the interest question. Ho agreed there should be classification of land, as much of the land in the Dominion was wrongly classified. -In this way land values could be brought down.