TAXES ON BIBLES
SURPRISE EXPRESSED
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") CHEISTCHUECH, 9th February. Surprise that the Government had not exempted Bibles and Prayer-Books from the sales tax was expressed today by Mr. E. Miller, representative for Australia of the Oxford University Press, who is in Christchurch at present. He said that with the probable exception of Bussia., New Zealand was the only country in the world, as far as he knew, that taxed Bibles and Prayer Books in this way. Taxes on Bibles were removed in Australia a, considerable time before they were removed oe general books, said Mr. Miller. Some time afterwards exemption was extended to prayer and hymn: books. Following . that, the exemption was extended to books, as church people of all denominations had protested against the tax on religious publications, and books as a whole were exempted as a result of representations from all classes in the community stressing their cultural educational value. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 8
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158TAXES ON BIBLES Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 8
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