HARD LUCK.
HELD UP, HUNG UP. ■—■ —■* : r RUNG UP AND ROBBED. JUST WAITING TO SEE. A Maitland (Australia) business man who had made repeated demands on a client for a settlement of his long overdue account, received the following letter: — “ Dear Sir, —For the following reasons I am unable to send you the cheque for which you ask: “ i have been held up, held down, sandbagged, walked upon, sat upon, | flattened out, and squeezed by the Income Tax, the Super Tax, the Endowment Tax, the Tobacco Tax, the Beer Tax, the Spirits Tax, the Motor Tax, the Arqusement Tax, and by every other Society, Organisation and Club the inventive mind of man can think of, to extract what I may not have in my possession. “ The Government has governed my business till I don’t know who owns it^ “ | am Inspected, suspected, examined, and re-examined, Informed, required, and commanded, so that I don’t know who I am, where I am, and why I am here at all.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18258, 20 February 1931, Page 3
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