WAR FINANCE.
LIO THE EDITOR. 1 itnr. —In your verv able leader of last evening s issue you make -t i n i i t i p >p 11 tit reonn mon need lo beater lueniselVfcs tvo 1 g 1 1 lg <1 1 IOUIJ Im Wul purposes, as were is niucn money n n i ml t Di ippmd ioi w n p n ji-.s. s vviiicn is not so applied, and wluen depends upon tne holder s net ol 1 ti nk t t it would be omy lair to fi.ll people, if the Government were to issue tor circulation witnin the Dominion £20.000,000 m notes instead ot borrowing, and tax al 1 tci tl and incomis to Hit amount oi the interest required at 4 pi i ct ut p innum piling off th* amount ot £20.000.000 in a given tun viuii such notes (ould b < tiled in 1 iitisi re ii t irehtinq toi hu tish liberty and British possessions. 11 oui cm muw n we lost both oir hbiii red possessions Yl ix would be upon ou poss sums whctlui we art t illing or not a d io ild rqu disc tne responsibilities ot everv individual able to pav toward the cost ot tne war. inrougn tne war huge profits are being made by some and they would pay in proportion to their profits.—l am, etc., etc., GEORGE BELL. Hastings, 15’2,17.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 355, 15 February 1917, Page 2
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