BURDEN OF IRISH TAXES

Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1933, Page 8

BURDEN OF IRISH TAXES

MAY HAVE TO QUIT LAND. LORD POWERSCOURT’S PLAINT. Viscount Powerscourt, one of the largest Irish landholders, hinted recently that he may have to leave the Irish Free State. “If I have to leave Ireland because of economic pressure it will be the most bitter decision of my life,” he said after he had been elected president for the next three years of the Royal Dublin Society, which organises th 6 Dublin Horse Show and the Spring Agricultural Show. < ' . . ■ “No man can tell what may happen in the next few years. Nor can we tell whether the valuable work of this society .will continue. If insuperable difficulties arise it may be necessary that our shows be cancelled. “I hope that I may be able to serve the society for my whole term of office, but I feel bound to explain to you now that should Economic pressure bear too much upon me—and it is well-nigh Jtet already—l may have to resign and leave the country I have loved and lived in so long. Should that occur, it will not be of my choosing. “Should the voice of the people declare that they do not want our services, then we will possibly go with broken hearts, but with no feelings of resentment.” Lord Powerscourt recently decided to place his beautiful County Wicklow home, Powerscourt, and his estate on the market owing to the increased bw> den of taxation in the Flee Stat* .