INCOME TAX CASES.
A DUNEDIN OPINION. [F»Otf OUR CORBKSrOSTDXWT.] DUNEDIN; August 5. Commenting on the income tax case the ''Times" says: "We ventured to suggest when the decision of the Magistrate was given that the Hon. ,G. J. Smith owed it to his colleagues in the Legislature that ho should tender to the Governor his resignation of his seat. He did not see fit to adopt this course, but his retirement from public life is inevitable. Whether he should be unaccompanied in his withdrawal from the Legislature is a matter upon which a certain amount of speculation may perhaps bo excusable. Rumour, which, to be sure, is not always reliable, has not hesitated to name another legislator in connection with a matter of tho kind that has brought MiSmith's name y into disagreeable prominence. This legislator, it is alleged, has effected a compromise with the Income Tax Department. If there is any foundation in fact for the reports which have gained currency on this point, there may be no difference between the quality of the offonce committed by him and that committed by Mr Smith; or, if there is a difference, it may even be in favour of Mr Smith, and in that case there should really be two resignations from the Legislature, not one only."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9918, 5 August 1910, Page 3
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216INCOME TAX CASES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9918, 5 August 1910, Page 3
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