Objects and Reasons.
1. In Chapter III, 1, of their Report (Sessional Paper No. 1 of 1940) the War Revenue Committee recommended that the Government should proceed with measures on the lines of a War Revenue Bill included as an Appendix to the Report.
2. A Resolution of the Legislative Council endorsing that recommendation was passed at the Council's meeting of the 7th March, 1940.
3. Since the Report was published certain suggestions of slight verbal alterations, chiefly of a clarifying nature, have been considered. In so far as these suggestions have been approved they have been embodied in the Bill now presented.
April, 1940.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
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