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Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5182, 1 June 1885, Page 3

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J ■ ' . ■$' .■ ' ■ '■ j •Tee Hoa . j ohn'Go 116Dj ~Pr o mie'r of , Soii tH' sAuß : traliaJ" who recently visited .this colony,; saysf New:, Zealand is'a fine country, but there is : a good? deal, of -inferior land, and moqt of the best soil is pretty- well tiik'eQ up, and a great quantity of, it is .in the hands of- a few, people." .Now'thiltl the New Zedland people havo become accustomed, to if, thoycsay they have no;.diffi« culty in I working the Property Tax Act. At 'the same time the Government there | jiitend to, go [in for: arjand; tax; pure and ! simple, if they can manage to get Parliament to -adopUt, Of course, - there. lOre differon^.Q^oj9ion;jqii' : from wliat Ibeard of the • expressed j now.that they understandHlie 'property tax better j 'it work b. com par ati v'ely easy. Still they are, as I said, going in for a land tax*; and:. if .thsy.'can theyv willy-also 'lryl: ; t6' pass an jncome tax. ~1 saw ./Mr' Stout, tno lieixd; of rtho ,Qover^ment,'Vfrer queritlyi He was always-the essence,of politeness, gave me'every information, diid placed all the pßpera.he. could.at '.my; .dieposaj, particularly, inregard t.o thajworting 'of 'tfi'eiritaxatiori and'educational systems,Their educational system is a most expensive one, and the people complain that they are\spending too much money upon it. I think tliey are. •It is comparatively more ■costly than our system,