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North Otago Times, 20 July 1917, Page 6

-- ■ i A reference to New,Zealand's,,war debt was made by Mr C. ,T. Parr, M.P., in addressing the committee of the Auckland branch of the Second Division League on Monday evening. No one, lie remarked, could say exactly how much the Dominion had to pay. We had to bear not only all the expenses incurred in New Zealand,, but also all costs arising in Europe in connection with the feeding and equipment of onr force. Even all the costs of food, clothing, the shells, and..'ammunition fired by our men were debited to the Dominion, He did not suggest that the expenditure was unnecessary or inadvisable, as our men at the front were entitled to every consideration, Now that the married men were to he called upon the country would have to face a still heavier expenditure on account of -the difference, in.' the pensions and allowances to single and married men. Those who remained behind, Mr Parr added, would Lave to submit to very severe taxation of both property and incomes,

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