THREAT OF EXTRA TAXES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11012, 27 January 1926, Page 5

THREAT OF EXTRA TAXES

BALDWIN’S WARNING TO BRITAIN ECONOMY MUST BE PRACTISED. (Received Jan. 26, 11 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 25. Mr Baldwin, in a speech at the Unionist Association dinner in London, said that, unless great economies were secured, an increase in taxation this year or next, whatever Government was in power, would be inevitable. The Premier thankfully noted the hopeful signs of trade improvement and declared that economies must be made involving sacrifices not only of luxuries but of things almost in the category of necessities. Mr Baldwin stated that the eyes of their opponents were fixed more on spending than on saving and the Government would need the stoutest support of all its friends on both sides.—A. and N.Z.C.A. CONDITIONS GRAVE AT HOME. Thus Mrs Staples-Brown (‘‘Maggie Papakura”) on her return to New Zealand after an absence of 15 years:—The saddest aspect of the state of affairs existing in England to-day was that so many of the unemployed had never done any work of any kind, continued Mrs StaplesBrown. They had no oxosrience of even the mo.A unsl died trades. . The dele, which could he regarded at best as a safeguard against re/olution, had killed the iuitiitivc of the unemployed, and a large body to-day felt neither the inclination nor the necessity to work. In many cases, the amount of the dole exceeded the sum that could he earned in the more unskilled occupations. The large amount of protection given eome trades—notably the motor industry—had proved, as a temporary measure, a great success.