LAND VALUES LEAGUE.
THE EIGHT INC! PLAT FOR At. ( Press Association Telegram A WELLINGTON. "Aug. 3. The Dominion Conference of the Land Values League was concluded this morning. The "fighting platform'’ of the League was amended to read as under:(11 Assessment of all rates on unimproved values. (*2) The Land Tax to be increased by another penny in the £. with exemption tor the additional penny, the revenue so raised to he applied to the reduction of Customs duties on the necessaries of life, and coupled with a reduction of railway freights and lares. .(']) Tim adoption of effective voting and proportional representation tor all elections. 'Phe national executive, with headquarters at- Auckland, for 1915-16 was constituted as tollows: 1 resident, The Hon. George Fowids; vice-presi-dents, Air C. T>. AlVLean (Auckland! . Air V. J. (VRegan (Wellington). All C. 1L Nightingale (ChirstehurehL and Dunedin to he selected by the brgiy •*>. see rota rv and treasure!, - \ resolution was passed directing attention to the failure of purchasing land for closer settlement under tin Land for Settlement Act. and pointing out that, “according to the latest New Zealand Year Rook £6.936.613 "-as expended in the acquisition of estates with incidental expenses amounting h> £581.832, while the selecto-is on the lands so acquired numbered only 55“9 anti 96,365 aeres.xff the purchased land were undisposed of.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3999, 4 August 1915, Page 5
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218LAND VALUES LEAGUE. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3999, 4 August 1915, Page 5
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