Better To Tax Breweries Than To Take Them Over
[Special to “Northern Advocate.” 3 AUCKLAND, This Day. Banks and "breweries were briefly mentioned by the Minister for Health and Housing (Mr Armstrong), during the course of a political address last evening. “We took over the Central Bank, and we have made some use of it,” he said. “I hope that the time will come when we will own all the banks. “Before we have completed our programme, banking wili not be a very profitable enterprise.” When an interjector asked: “What about the breweries?” the Minister said that if the Government had not taken over breweries it had to be remembered that the State was receiving 2/- a gallon from their production. "I think that a better proposition than taking them over.” he added. “If we owned them. I do not think we would make 2/- a gallon. "You fellows would all want cheaper beer.”
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Northern Advocate, 10 May 1940, Page 4
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154Better To Tax Breweries Than To Take Them Over Northern Advocate, 10 May 1940, Page 4
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