THE NEWEST TAX.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 8

THE NEWEST TAX.

(Tiy SINBAD)

The Germans now begin to moan concerning bobbed and shingled hair. 'So fraulein that with pride we'd own would crop her tresses," they declare. "The good Hansfrau would never seek the portals of a barber's shop to trim her shingle once a week or smarten up her Eton crop. Xay, rather she her locks would wear compactly knotted in a ban. The shinpled dames : are, we declare, unworthy of the name of Hun. The present fashion is, no doubt, an aping of our country's foes, nnd so to wipe the *hin<:le out, a monthly tax we now propose, and so the girls who are so lax us on this bobbing to be bent, will to the barbers' pay one tax, another to the Government."

Some this as tyrany may hail. Myself I take another view, for such a scheme •■an scarcelv fail to bolster up the revenue. My admiration swiftly crow*, for brains are in the German head. A variation I pronos.-. which should I*> useful in X.Z. The Government for money hcg«. Well, here's a notion all my own: Why not a tax on silk-clad legs, to vary with the length that'* shown .