Free Of Taxation.

Chronicle (Levin), 10 December 1949, Page 4

Free Of Taxation.

Should the cost pf daily newspapers be dkempt. from tax? The Tokomaru branch of Federated Farmers considered it should when it submitted a remit to the proVincial executive of Manawatu Federated Farmers yesterday protesting at the actioh. of the Cpmmissidner of Takes in 'not allowing the cost of daily papers as a doductibie item for taxation purposes. Tlfe matter will be referred to the Commissioner of Taxes for eonsideratioh. m.p.'s Home Brpken Into. During the past three days while Mr. R. Walls, Labour member of Parliament for North Dunedin, was ■ resting in the country after the election campaign, his home in Dundas "Street was broken into, but nothing of value is missing. The police learned Of the matter from a newspaper runner who had noticed the' front dOO? open for three days. The incruder broke a window to enter the house and left by the front door after muking- a tho.rough search of the rporns.— p.A. A Poefic Nation. "The English are a poetic people— o/ie might say fuftffer that they- ^re the only poetic people; they've got a poetry so great that the po.etry of all the rest of the world* doesn't reaily be'gin to compefe. You can put Ihe whole of the world's poetry in one scale, and the English poetry in the other, and, I'rn not sure that the Engffsh poefry won't outweigh it." — Golonel Walter Elliot. M.P., talking about the English character in the BHQ-prpsr^nnne, "London Foruih,'^ '