FURTHER TAXATION MUST BE AVOIDED.
Prior to the last licensing referendum. tin* 'Mercantile Gazette of N e\y Zealand”—regarded as the leter o i ;11 * • Dominion —said this:— “This paper has no interest in the question of prohibition except as to- its effect upon the trade and finance oi the Dominion. We hav? no great feeding as to which way the issue* shall be decided, but ’ »‘oni a trade point of view we think, with all respect to the Hon. The Finance Minister, that the first duty of the Government is to get taxation down. If prohibition is carried, we have heard no ' x plar«atioi to how the loss of revenue is to be made up. Further taxation must ho imposed to meet me deficiency in Customs Duties one! < xc;sv* tax on beer. To this til ust be add'd another half milhon for cost of enforcing the Act. \V o s ben Id bo glad to know how ; m '- amount i” to be obtained unless drastic additions to the present. taxation are made.” fs it possible that anyone can con2£r'. ,> +l t, ‘ t Uh a|,athy arid in differtin s.. ggenng increase.: of taxation and unemployment that would -n”. “|ir.)hil>s” had tlre-ir ■'"'■v.-r uiuat Ik- a solid vote lor Continuance -j 7
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13091, 26 October 1935, Page 5
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210FURTHER TAXATION MUST BE AVOIDED. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13091, 26 October 1935, Page 5
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