TWO PLATFORM PLANKS.
Changes in Electoral and Land Systems. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 24. The Citizens National Movement Independent candidate, Mr E. W. Nicolaus, expounded his two platform planks, electoral reform and land law reform. He favoured the proportional representation system. Coming to his second platform plank, Mr Nicolaus said that to-day the rent of land in New Zealand (that was, the value of the land apart from improvements) was taken by private people and was generally known as “ unearned increment.” This was merely derived from the land in the form of rent, and should not be confused with income derived from capital which people had a right to have. Rent was the only fund from which any Government should draw its revenue and rent from all the land in the world was sufficient for the needs of the people that occupied it.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 24 November 1931, Page 4
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144TWO PLATFORM PLANKS. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 24 November 1931, Page 4
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