TAXING LUXURIES
PRETTY STOCKINGS, ETC. Advocating tho taxation! of luxuries and 1 amusements in tho House last night Air G. V. Pearce, AI.P. for Patca, evoked loud laugher hy his statement that ho “had been at the Opera. House the other night, and it was full up to the hilt.” “Yes,” said Air Pearce, “and if there had been a tax on tickets, I would willingly have paid may tex/' The hon. member stated! that there was also a great deal of extravagance on motor-cars. A membeir: “You have two, haven’t you?” (Laughter.) Air Pearce: “I am only running >no at the present time.” (Laughter.) Continuing, ho admitted that ho liked to see ladies with pretty stockings on and all that sort of thing. (Loud laughter.) But such things were extravagance and ought to be taxed. (Laughter.) Racing, picture shows, tobacco, and many other things should also be heavily taxed. Air Vigor Brown (Napier): “Tobacco is already taxed 350 per cent ”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9716, 19 July 1917, Page 6
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