The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 29
Part II. — Who Ought to Pay?
Part II.
Who Ought to Pay?
Present Unfairness.—Proposed Reforms.—Tax on Property and Income.—Mode of Assessment.—Objection to "Inquisitorial" Action.—Replied to.—Other Objections.—By Members of Parliament.—Replies to them.—Alleged Unproductiveness of Tax.—Absurdity of Low Estimate.—British Landed Income.—Approximate Estimate of Proceeds of Tax in New Zealand.—Income from Other Sources than Land.—Limit of Exemption.—Probable Produce of New Taxes, deducting exempted incomes.—Share of Land Fund.—Table of Receipts and Acreage Tax thereon.—Taxes on Purchases and Leases of Land from Natives.—History of "Native Land-sharking."—New Zealand, 1839.—Victoria, 1835.—Fijis, 1870.—New Zealand, 1840-1877.—The Land Purchase Department.—Native Land Courts.—Donald McLean.—Pacifying the Natives.—Assisting the Land-sharks.—Sir Donald.—His Fortune.—Skinning the Native Eels Alive.—The Process Described.—No Chance for Man of Small Means.—No Public Revenue.—Southern Runholders engaged in it.—Men of Monied and Parliamentary Influence.—Moorliouse's great Murimotu Conception.—Block Described, by Mr. Ballance, the new Minister.—My own Knowledge of it.—Opinions of Native Land Courts Bill, 1877.—Probable Private Acquisition of cream of North Island.—Tax proposed.—Probable Proceeds.—Probable Effects.—Sir Donald McLean's Legacies.—To His only Son.—To the Colony.