MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
LABOUR PROGRAMME. LONDON, October 24. The -municipal elections for London and county councils will take place in i November. There will he 877 LabourSocialist candidates. Considerable importance is attached to the elections, as they will give an indication of the way in which tho electors will probably receive the next Parliamentary programme of the Labour Party. Tho municipal programme of the Labour candidates provides for the substitution of an income tax and death duties for the present system of rating on rental values, tho ear-marking of land taxes for municipal, purposes, and the supplying of bread, milk, and coal by tho municipality.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 31 October 1912, Page 7
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104MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 31 October 1912, Page 7
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