FARMERS’ INTERESTS.
CONFERENCE OF UNION. STATE LOTTERIES URGED. VARIOUS REMITS CARRIED. (By Tclegrapa.—Fross Association.) PALMERSTON N„ Wednesday. That the Government be requested to conduct State lotteries in place of the present art unions, (lie profits to bo devoted to hospitals and charitable aid, was a remit carried at the interprovincial conference of the Farmers Union-
Tho case of tiic Palmerston North Hospital Board, urgently requiring £40,000 for capital extensions, and being pressed into additional rating to secure the necessary finance, was cited by a Manawatu delegate as an argument in favour of State lotteries. Otlicr remits carried were that the conference support the Counties’ Association in its suggestion to have ail money, raised by petrol and other motor taxes, spent on main highways, with a £1 for £1 subsidy on all moneys spent by county councils on roads oilier than highways; that where the Highways Board takes over roads in any locality where the ratepayers have been levied for a special rale, they should be relieved of such special rate as from the lime, the Board takes over, that the Farmers’ Union should continue to press for (lie whole of the petrol lax yield being spent on roads; that land tax paid by taxpayers be subject to a reduction when assessing income lax.
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Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 18589, 30 May 1935, Page 10
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213FARMERS’ INTERESTS. Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 18589, 30 May 1935, Page 10
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