COMING TAXATION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3117, 22 June 1917, Page 4

COMING TAXATION

NO SOURCE TO BE LEFT UNTAPPED

By Telegraph—Special Reporter

Palmerston North, June 21, Speaking at Die National Dairv Show banquet to-night, the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald) made reference to future taxation.

'"So far as taxation is concerned," he said, "there is not one single source from which revenue can l>e produced which will not probably be tapped during tlio coming session of Palmiament. We have heard a good deal about an export tax. It is the easiest thing possible to put m an export tax, but it is the most difficult thing to get it off again. When it is on it is a certain producer of so much revenue, and the Minister o£ Finance sees that it remains. One reads this morning's papers and sees there lists containing a, thousand names of bovs who are fighting and falling and dying for you. Can you complain of the Government doing its best to protect their inteiests and the. interests of their dependants? When Parliament meets taxation will bo discussed, and if what has been done during the recess has been unjust, it can be- reviewed. There are great difficultis ahead. The- present members of Parliament have had to join together to endeavour to do what is best for the country, and I hope the farmers will do the same. Parliamentarians whoso ways lay as the Poles apart have .sunk differences, and everyone else also should sink their fads to help the Empire in this time of stress and trouble. Let us be united so that wo can look forward through the mist and the dark to the dawn of glorious victory."