INCOME TAX

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2639, 9 December 1915, Page 6

INCOME TAX

"A WORD TO THE FARMERS.'' "if word to the farmers" was spo\~on by the Finance Minister Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward), who delivered n speech in the course of performing the by the Finance Minister {liig'ht Hon. Flower Show on Tuesday. The Minister said that one of. the first duties of a Government in a; time like tho present was to provide money with ■ which to carry on the country's ahare 111 tlio war. _ Too mucli' was not "being asked, and if the war. endured for another year, or two years, there could, be no doubt, in his judgment, that further money would bo required, and he believed that the farmers and every other section of the community would readily do everything in their power to conform to tho country's requirements. Some farmers were experiencing difficulty in the, filling up of the income forms. Three inspectors had been appointed whose whole duty 'would be .to render assistance in that direction,' so that the receipt of the information by the Taxation Department would be facilitated. Ho was sure thore was no class of the community which did not realise

that, whether it be by men or money, our first, duty was to maintain this country as a free British possession for the generations which were to follow. This could not, be accomplished without some ' Men throughout the Empire were rising to the occasion, and he instanced the case of Mr. Lloyd George, who had become a force moving people to help the Empire to victory.