History: Days of future pastSTUFF First edition of the Waikato Times newspaper, 2nd May 1872. Today, tax credits which encourage Hollywood productions to film in New Zealand are highly controversial. A boycott of New Zealand was threatened, though exactly by whom and with what authority was initially unclear. Others, mindful of the vast investment in sound equipment, foretold financial ruin if the tax were to be enforced. Sir Victor Williams, of the Motion Picture Distributors of Australia, arrived from Sydney and claimed that the tax was akin to a "lock-out".

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