WAR TAXATION.
TAPPING ALL SOUECES. llty Telegrtipb.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, this day. Speaking at the Show smoke concert yesterday, evening, the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald. Minister for Agriculture, innde reference to the butter-fat tax. He declared: " If the merchants had had their own sweet v. ill. butter would have risen to two .shillings a pound. An export duty had been suggested, hut it was easier to put an export lax on than to take it oft. During the coming session no source of revenue, would remain ujitaDDcd to pre vide for war need."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 148, 22 June 1917, Page 6
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