SILK AND COTTON STOCKINGS
ARGUMENT FOR TAX. Electric Telegraph—Press Association LONDON, May 1. During the Budget debate, the Hon. W- E. Guinness, in defending the silk tax, denied that silk was anything but a luxury. It was mixed with wool and cotton merely to increase their attractiveness and wa.s in no wise economical to the poorer classes. Ho cited as an example of the superiority of cotton, the fact that ladies preferred that the feet and tops of their stockings, to which they hitched their suspenders, should not be made of silk. This sally was greeted with cheers and laughter. Mr Guinness scouted the suggestion that the tax would appreciably affect the industry.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9922, 2 May 1925, Page 5
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