WAR COSTS BURDEN
FREEING OF EX-SOLDIERS GOVERNMENT’S HOPE (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. “Will the soldiers now fighting for their country have to come back and help to pay for the cost of the war.” This question had been discussed during the financial debate by a member who criticised the present loan and debt system and was sympathetically mentioned '‘by the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, in the House last night. “If it is possible,” he said, “for the Government to find a way to free him of the debt in regard to this war, we will do it. I don’t know for a moment how, but if there is a way to ensure that those who went to fight and have made their contribution because they fought shall be free from the load afterwards. It is difficult, but as one member of the Government I shall try to keep their load as light as possible.” Mr. F. W. Doidge (Nat.. Tauranga): While they are away now they are still paying.
Mr. Nash replied that if a man at the front had an income in New Zealand lor work done here taxes were levied, but no overseas man paid on his soldier’s pay or the payments ot his dependants.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 1 August 1941, Page 6
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