RUSH COLLAPSES.
RELIEF TAX PAYMENTS. After four crowded days, beginning towards the end of last week and culminating in long queues yesterday, the big room in the Chief Post Office where the employment tax and levy are paid wa« deserted to-day. The rush had collapsed like a pricked bubble. At midday four clerks at the counter were receiving payments from four taxpayers; the room appeared deserted. "A larger amount was received than on the final day of May last year," said gifc ; Mr. H. M. Patrick, deputy-chief poatmaeter, to-day, "and more work was . involved in checking the forms owing fs*°tho extra information that had to be Generally, the taxation payTh 2 vss^ than * y ear a «°-" those wlio paid the. increased J®' comparison with
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 127, 1 June 1938, Page 8
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