MANY A LAUGH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 11

MANY A LAUGH.

UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR I TAX COLLECTORS AMUSED, j HUSBAND WHO HAD TO WORK. ' (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, February 26. j Tax collectors manage to extract some amusement from their rather grim job. A few examples of the sort of thing | they laugh at are published in the carrent' number of their journal, "Taxes." In a Leicester district a harassed citizen .wrote to the inspector: "The piggeries is now closed. I invested £40 in the business and had swine fever." In London the woman proprietor of a small cafe, asked to furnish accounts, pleaded: "Business lias dropped oIF very badly. I have "even been compelled to send my husband to work to pay my way, and that is not enough." The tax collectors who think this husband's tragedy funny are also amused by the agitation which led a man, in appealing against a demand, to write: "Married and wife living with me. Must be some mistake." But the laugh is not always against the taxpayer. It was an auditor who wrote in his report or. a society: "We would again urge all married members not returned as such to have their wives certified without delay."