HELPING THE CHANCELLOR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7569, 23 May 1914, Page 3

HELPING THE CHANCELLOR.

The difficulty experienced nowadays in deciding what to tax and niiat to leave nutaxed recalls the store of an earlier Chancellor of the F,xehe<|iicr who was reduced to dispair in similar circumstances. Finally ho decided to "ononll a friend who had cn (several orwashms helped him to find fresh sources of revenue, and hav. ing written to this friend ho waited hooofnlly for tho reply. 'Che friend’s suggestion came by return. “ Put n tax on umbrellas,” he wrote, ‘'and make tho bishops ord«r tho prayer for rain to he read in nil the churches.”