DEATH DUTIES ON PUBLIC BEQUESTS.
(To the Editor.) Though the editors of both our able daily newspapers are in accord re-' remission of death duties on Sir John Logan Campbell's estate, 1 submit there is room for honeat difference of opinion. When we consider the strenuous exertion required for honest ratepayers to live, the foremost charity is to relieve the expenses of living. The ratepayers have to keep the Government up in funds for our asylums, gaols, police, d<* fence, back block roading, pensions, interest on debts, besides exceptional educational expenses, etc. 1 submit we cannot afford it. I would not allow special remissions on anything unless our representatives, as a body, consider and discuss the same on the floor of the House. The Scriptures say: "Woe to him that adds house to house and field to field." Our laws should discourage hoarding as well as encourage thrift with living, 10-. ir-r philanthropy. — am, etc., J. VINCENT.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 205, 27 August 1912, Page 8
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