Touched Live Wire

Chronicle (Levin), 21 March 1946, Page 4

Touched Live Wire

Thomas Heath, a Maori, aged 25, employed OU electrical work near Ongarue, touched a wa carrying ll,0Q0 volts and recoived severe hurns and shoek. H§ was taken to the Taumarunui Hqspital in a serious conbiitiom Frimage Tax on Rooks Qn condition that Dominion booksellers. reduee their hook prices by 6 per oent, all round, the Minister of Finance and Customs,"- Mr. Nash, has agreed to undertake to' remove ihe 3 ppr qent, primage tax levied on imported books. This decision was announced by Mr. Nash at the 2§th annual conference qf .the Associated Booksellers of New Zealand, which was openetiun Wellington on Monday. The decision, Whieh was greeted with cries of approvai, came as p. sequei t,o a statement by Mr- W, G, Harrap, P director of the publishing firm of Geoi-ge G, Harrap, Fth, London, that New ueaiahd was the only British country which imposed a tm on books, therefey retarding to some extent the knowledge and progress of the people, • Tke qeptpoyer Cutl^sg, being launcheri glasgow skipyaxif to-niorrow, will iinmediatgly aftPrwards be tpwed to the ^blpbreakers, half a mile away, and the Stepl rppoyered' fgr inerchant shipping CQnstruction. . ■i t