DEAR FOODSTUFFS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 April 1922, Page 3

DEAR FOODSTUFFS.

LONDON, April 27. In consequence of the distress caused by the high taxation of foodstuffs many members are inaugurating a campaign to reduce taxation. A prominent Labour member indicates that his party will go further and fight for the total abolition of imposts on foodstuffs, notably the tea and sugar duties. Lobbyists are of the opinion that the Government will not dare to reduce the income tax without simultaneously taking threepence off tea and a penny off sugar, which, with a shilling off the income tax, would cost £50,000,000. <