OUTRAGES IN PALESTINE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1944, Page 31

OUTRAGES IN PALESTINE

ATTRIBUTED TO JEWISH TERRORISTS. NINE POLICEMEN KILLED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 5. The Colonial Secretary (Major Oliver Stanley) told the House of Commons today that nine policemen had been killed and five wounded in terrorist outrages in Palestine sirfee March 3. Major Stanley said these criminal acts were committed by members of a secret organisation of Jewish extremists, known as the Stern Group, and members of a military organisation of revisionists.

acre will be paid on approved pig feed crops. TAXATION & MAINTENANCE.

“To adjust the deferred maintenance difficulty, the Government propose to bring down legislation on the lines that any supplier to a dairy factory should have the option in any financial year to leave with the Government for war purposes an agreed portion of his income which would not be included in that year’s taxable income. Each year’s sum so left with the Government would in some agreed subsequent year (when labour and material are available) be payable to the farmer and, unless expended for maintenance, would become ordinary income liable for taxation in that year. Details of this arrangement will be determined after consultation with the Farmers’ Federation. It is also proposed to increase the income tax deduction for cost of keep allowance to £1 a week. These taxation provisions are to come into operation in respect of any supplier’s financial year, commencing on or after April 1, 1943.

HOUSING & FERTILISERS.

“A rural housing scheme is to be instituted, and this matter will be accorded the utmost practicable urgency. “As additional quantities of fertiliser become available, increased allocations to dairy farms will be given priority. Details will be arranged in consultation with the National Council of Primary Production. “Consideration is to be given do the provision whereby dairy farmers may not change to other types of farming, and dairy farmers who have changed to sheep or dry stock during the past three years may be required to revert to dairying. This question.will be further discussed with representatives of the industry before any regulations are brought down. “On the eve of my departure to attend the conference of Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth, I feel that all the people of New Zealand fully understand the urgency and gravity of the need to produce more food and to conserve food for Britain and the forces fighting for freedom. It is a question not merely of maintaining production, but of increasing supplies to the utmost possible extent. Throughout the course of the war it has been my duty from time to time to ask foi- further efforts and for greater production. Our appeals have never gone unheeded and I take this opportunity of thanking the people of New Zealand and of paying tribute to their magnificent achievements and to the manner in which so many of them have endured heavy personal sacrifices.