POLITICAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2257, 31 July 1908, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

INCOME TAX RETURNS

[Special to “Times.”] WELLINGTON, July 29. The following returns show how l!:o inoonio tax is contributed:— ASSESSED INCOME.

Between £3OO and £IOOO, total £3,020,050, —number of ' payers 705 i; £IOOO and £2OOO, £1,359,G00, —007: £2OOO and £3OOO, £508,081-, —215; £3OOO and £4OOO, £545,752, —132; £4OOO and £SOOO, £300,532, —GB; £SOOO and 10,000, £818,4J5, —119; over £IO,OOO, £2,913,390. 101. Totals £10,180,933,-9583. The return includes all companies with incomes of £3OO and over, but does not include companies with incomes under £3OO although such incomes aro taxable. NATIVE LANDS.

A return presented to Parliament to-day shows that 7,982,327 acres, of land have been acquired from tho natives i.u the North Island. [Peess Association.] LAND BOARD. WELLINGTON, July 30. An interview between the 'Minister for Lands and a deputation from the New Zealand Farmers’ Union Conforence elicited from the Hon. *Mr. McNab an expression of bis wiillingness to Invo meetings of Land Boards in large -districts, such as held fortnightly, instead of monthly. A report to this effect was made to the Conference by Air. Hockley this morning, when ho also Anti mated that the Minister acquiesced''in a suggestion that the allowance of ten shillings a day was not sufficient to meet expenses to which struggling Crown tenants who wore members of Land Boards wero put to in travelling long distances to attend such meetings. Ml'. McNab was in favor of increasing the allowance, but as fit was fixed by statute he was personally powerless in the matter. MAIN TRUNK LINE. “We shall have finished rail-laying as far as wo can get to-morrow,” said the Minister for Public Works this morning in referring to thc'North Island Alain Trunk railway, “but the Alangaiiuite.io tunnel bridge will not. be ’ready for rail-laying, till Tuesday or Wednesday next, and until .then the rails cannot be laid.”