Challenges To
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The Bsi
Taxing Authorities
THE planters’ challenge to the legality of the regulations under which the Solomons Islands Administration imposes taxation ef incomes, initiated some months ago by Mr. R. C. Syme, probably will be advanced a further stage next month.
Two legal men from Sydney—Mr.
C. L. D. Meares, QC, and Mr. P. F.
Galvin, solicitor, leave for Honiara at the end of February to deal with a dispute between Mr. Dalrymple Hay and a firm of overseas buyers of war salvage material. While they
are in Honiara, it is expected they will make an effort to get the taxa tion case before a superior court there.
It had been proposed that the case be heard in Suva. But, now that Western Pacific High Com mission headquarters are in Honiara, it is thought that adequate judicial machinery may now be provided there.
The challenge to the authority of the BSI Copra Board, initiated about the same time by Mr. J.
Bryan, another BSI planter, by service of a writ upon the Board, is now under examination. If Messrs. Meares and Galvin can get the taxation case advanced to hearing, the Copra Board case should follow quickly.