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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21361, 15 June 1931, Page 7

There was a lot of humour in income tax .work; remarked Mr C. E. Dowland, deputy-commissioner of taxes, when lecturing recently’ in Blenheim. He related how one man, naming the capacity in which he made his return, wrote: “As the father of 19 children,” Many income tax stories, he said, placed income tax collectors in not the best light. There was, foy example, the story of the strong man who, having squeezed a lemon practically dry, challenged anyone in the audience to make it yield another drop. A little sandy-haired man stepped on to the stage and squeezed out three drops. In answer to the astounded strong man’s query, he ■announced that he was an income tax officer! ‘However, Mr Dojvland observed, the department really wanted the taxpayer to pay only, the tight amount, and no more. “If ever you are in difficulties with the department—if you have done wrong in the past,” he added, “do not be afraid to ■ lay your, cards,-on the table. Don’t be : : afraid t»-: come, to light with your misif -• deeda. -fWe will :he|lp you all we can, and I hope/tire can be fair.” deferring to the work at Lincoln College it a meeting of the Timaru A. and ■ P, Association on Friday, Mr N. M. Orbell said that everything was going on ,in a satisfactory manner. The Governhad take?-50 acres from the college, ; and was transferring experimental work fV i' from Ashburton to' the college, which he iconsidiefed'‘would he to the latter s advantage.; ;-■> In -recent months several new 1 buildings -fiadibeen erected. At present these were' 87 students, and fcxtra'accom- ■" modation-had to be provided for them. ■ The ‘had .cut its subsidy by 10 Tier cent., and this would have to be ;.vmade r; ’ The time ifr has .taken several unem- : sployed men to clear only part of the earthworks of the', Turuturu-Mokai re* doubt, near gives some idea (says ' Borthern exchange) of the stupendous Maoris accomplished- ■ The.’old l, Maori pa has a history difriiw ftsekhundreds of years as a Native gtrimghold, but near it is the site of the y.m redoubt built in 1866 by a detachment of ' Uie lsth Royal Irish ‘Regiment during the ‘iilie Hauhaus. The site was Sir George ■ Grey. -during • a r Tuit to Taranaki to direct Colonel M Donhell's Operations there. In 1868 military • %ettler«" built: their homes around the redoubt,: which: was then without a garrison, were used by one :f«mer: M"a sheep pen. Later, however, i ‘three bosh’ sawyers were killed in the - atid Colonel M'Donnell ordered '-''is- Members of the Armed Constabulary to the redoubt and put it in order. was delivered by the Maoris under . Tito- ! , i r £owaru, who had completed his plana in Ins tush-pa at Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu, seven miles away. 'The storming party,-which attacked an hdur before dawn, was led by : 'the chief* Haowhenua, who. was accompanied by a younger brother and the renejrade white man Charles Kane, a deserter - from the 18th Royal Irish. On the morning of the attack, July 12. the usaal morning call to arms at the redoubt was omitted, and the guard slept until aroused by the .firio? of the Hauhaus. Early in the fight'which ensued, Captain Ross, who was in charge of the garrison, was killed, and later the canteen keeper Lennon fell. The fighting continued for two hours, when i-relieving party arrived from Waihi to drive pff- the attackers.

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