TOO MANY LUXURIES HAVE BAD EFFECT
Received May 17, 9 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) SYDNEY, May 17. Dealing with the high rate of taxation and the recurrent surpluses over his Estimates, th© Federal Treasurer (Dr. Earle Page) said the development of the timepayment system in Australia was proceeding at an alarming rate, resulting in the prospective wealth of the community being pledged for goods, many of them foreign, at a rate which could net be forecasted. This had resulted in the ever-in-creasing importation of such luxuries as motor cars, musical instruments and such like goods.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19843, 18 May 1927, Page 7
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