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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16370, 1 March 1924, Page 4

“ From the spacious grounds occupied by tile mansion of Australia, we, who live in it, look across the roadway with envy at the modest villa on its small allotment with the name 1 Now Zealand’ on its cheap front gate, ,f writes the Sydney Sun. “Riches do not. depend on size. Compared with the compact little Dominion in Ihe Pacific, Australia finds it harder to live within its income than New Zealand. Relatively we are harder up than our neighbor, though we possess infinitely greater resources.” A hope that the Government might sec its way shortly to abandon the amusement tax entirely as far as sports bodies arc concerned is expressed by the Wellington Rugby Union Committee in its annual report. Towards the end of last season the Government announced a reduction in the tax, and that provided some measure of relief to tile union. However, a sum of £4-18 Os 4d (including the tax on matches controlled by the Wellington Union for the N.Z.R.U.) was paid oyer.