PATRIOTIC FUNDS.
PROTEST AGAINST VOLUNTARY TAXATION. (I'HESS A3SGCJAVIOX TZtEUHAit.) WELLINGTON, July 16. The Wellington branch of tlio Women. Teachers' Association considered a resolution forwarded by tho Women's National Council protesting against such methods as carnivals, art unions, and' all. forms of voluntary taxation for raising money for the relief of soldiers and their dependants. Tho Council regarded such means as inadequate, objectionable, wasteful, and unfair to tho general public, who should not be bribed to do their duty. It was also humiliating; to tho soldiers themselves and tlicir relatives, and tbr> Comncil considered a. -properly graduated system of taxation tho most equitabh* and suitable means of raising money for this object. , The Women Teachers' Association endorsed tho resolution, and expressed the opinion that carnivals, art unions, etc., for raising money had a very bad influence -upon children.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15955, 17 July 1917, Page 5
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