HITS LANG’S TAX PROPOSAL HARD.
“ EVENING STANDARD ” ATTACKS NEW PLAN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 19. 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, November 18. The “Evening Standard” declares: “ It is impossible to believe that Mr Lang's halfpenny tax on periodicals will pass in any English-speaking country. There never was a more convinced and determined agitation than that against the tax on knowledge which resulted in the abolition of the newspaper tax in 1855. Presumably the proposal includes books, which should make the outcry all the greater in a country with a new and struggling literary class.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18008, 19 November 1926, Page 1
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