“INIQUITOUS”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20284, 6 December 1935, Page 7

“INIQUITOUS”

THE SALES TAX By TelegrapD Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, December 5. The confidence which manufacturers feel about securing encouragement from the Labour Government was indicated by Mr C. H. Burson, president of the Canterbury Manufacturers Association, addressing the annual meeting to-night. Mr Burson said it was only reasonable to assume that manufacturers would not have any obstacles placed in their path which would retard their progress, but that everything possible would be done to encourage their development. Manufacturers for their part would not be found wanting in bringing their factories and plants up to the highest possible state of efficiency. He described the sales tax as the most iniquitous form of taxation ever placed on the Statute Book, and it was reasonable to assume that it would be removed at the earliest possible opportunity. » Mr A. M. Hollander, in seconding the motion to adopt the report, said that any assistance- which the Government gave manufacturers would be reciprocated. There was an opportunity, he claimed, for quite a long period of reflation to take the place of the deflation which had been going on since 1930. If the new Government, would see that reflationary movement, of which New Zealand had had a taste during the last year, was accelerated, it could have nothing but beneficial effects for every member of the community.