PARLIAMENTARY NEWS
NOTES FROM THE PRESS GALLERY. (Fbom Our Own Cobrespondevt.) WELLINGTON, August 14. Speaking in tho Budget debate this evening, Mr Wilkinson urged that the bachelor should bo taxed more highly than the man with a family, and that the man with a wife and live or six children should be required to pay Jess than the man with a wife only or with ono or two 'children. A .FRESH ELECTION. To a chorus of "Hoar, hears" hom a section of the House, Mr Hornsby advocated the holding of a new election, every man returned pledging himself to vote in "favour of another election immediately our soldiers returned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17083, 15 August 1917, Page 5
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