PROFIT FROM WOLF AT HIS DOOR

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30453, 29 May 1964, Page 12

PROFIT FROM WOLF AT HIS DOOR

One of his least pleasant duties, says the general manager of the Automobile Association (Canterbury), Mr E. S. Palliser, is the collection of outstanding subscriptions from members who have not, responded to the initial accounts and reminders sent to them. However, a letter read at a meeting of the association’s council last evening made Mr Palliser’s “unpleasant task more bearable.” The writer, a Halswell man, offered the following reasons for not paying his subscription earlier: “My shattered financial position is due to union laws, local body laws, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, and outlaws. Through these laws I am compelled to pay income tax, purchase tax and amusement tax (of which I have none). Even my brain is taxed. I am required to get a car licence, radio licence, fishing licence, shooting licence and dog licence, not to mention a marriage licence. “I am required to contribute to every society and organisation the genius of man is capable of bringing to light—the women’s relief, the

unemployment relief, and the gold-digger’s relief. Also to every hospital and charitable institution in the country, including the Red Cross and the double cross. “For my own safety I am required to carry a life insurance, accident insurance, burglary insurance, war and earthquake damage insurance, liability insurance and fire insurance. My business is so governed that I do not know, nor can I find out, who owns it. “I am inspected, expected, rejected, disrespected, examined and re-examined, informed, required, summoned, fined, commanded and compelled until I provide an inexhaustible supply of money for every known need, desire, or hope of the human race. Simply because I refuse to donate something or other, I am boycotted, talked about held up, cried down and robbed until I am ruined.

“I can tell you honestly that except for the miracle that happened, 1 could not enclose the cheque. “The wolf that comes to many doors nowadays had pups in my kitchen.

“I sold the pups—aud here is the money.”