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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume V, Issue 215, 6 September 1894, Page 9

Tasmania is called the “ tight little island,” and judging by the recent actions of its legislators it is tight in more ways than one. lam not using ihe word “ tight ” in the alcoholic, but the monetary sense. After deciding that the totalisator must pay a 5 per cent, tax, the Government passed a measure to the effect that on and after the Ist day of October, 1894, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, a stamp duty of one penny for and in respect of every ticket or order sold or issued to any person for the purpose of securing the admission of the holder thereof to any public theatrical performance, exhibition, concert, circus, ball, or other public entertainment or amusement, such stamp duty to be payable in respect of every person obtaining the right of such admission under any such ticket as aforesaid. Money must be decidedly scarce in Tasmania,