SCREAMED WITH LAUGHTER WHEN FNED £60

Chronicle (Levin), 29 March 1947, Page 2

SCREAMED WITH LAUGHTER WHEN FNED £60

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AUCKLAND, Mai*. 28. j ( 'laiiniug I'.rotoctioi. under tlie Atlantic CharhT and maintaining that the chnrges should be dismissed as irrelevant, Lional Duggau, principal of the I 'hiropraclic Health Institutc, plcaded i not guiltv before Ml*. J. Morling, S.M., lo three iiiformations of failing to make rolurns of incoine for tax piMqtosc.s and one of.not paying- the Soeiai Security levy fnr three years. Thc institute whicli was rcpres uited bv Duggan, tilcacled not guiltv to ti ino irUormations of failing to pav wages t".x from his sal arv. After evidence had been gjven on behalf of ihe Corriiiuss-ouer of Taxes, Duggan stated thatiii 19-10 he had commujiicated with the Go vei*a>oent maintaining* that the ,Soei il fVn**ity seheme gave the people no :eal st urity and that Ihe tax was th jr.jf re nnconstitutional. ITe said he inie.T-ed to ignore all Governinent conununb'ations and ; regnl-vt ions y.uitil a tesr eas3 had been ' held to examine his righ't- as a f reeborn ! British eiti*»»n and a ref inned soldier. TTe had written to Mr. Wiision Churehill and Air. Ti. G. U"izios of Australia, .asking their help. The institute, by resoution of a general n eeting of its I members, had ••efusod .to p:.1 \ the wages! tax from his -jalary show it& snpport for hira. \ Laying nat. it was a v rv grave offence and Mie; Duggan had deliberate* ly dodged paying his taxes which placed an added bur 'e i on the rest of the conmiunity, the Magistrate fmed him £20 on each of the first three informations and £1 ou the fourth. The institute was fmed £5 on each of the nine informations laid against it. Duggan .protestcd and created a disturbanee as the Magistrate announoed the sentences by sereaming with laugliter and announcing his ccntempt f the Court and the whole proceediiigs, l