GREEK MEETS GREEK

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 August 1921, Page 7

GREEK MEETS GREEK

DODGING TAXATION

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Aug. 12, 12.45 p.m.) VIENNA, Aug. 11. The Taxation Commissioners levied a four hundred million kroner income tax upon a string of Hungarian horses entered for Austrian race meetings, and planned to seize the race~horses as security. The owners heard of the plan just in time to rush the animals in motor lorries over the Hungarian border during the nighttime. ■The commissioners pursued them in motor cars,' but the horses reached the border first.