COLLECTORS FOR STATE
FUNCTION OF TRADERS UNABLE TO CARRY DUTY (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A statement was made by Mr. M. J. Walsh, (the secretary of the Auckland provincial council, speaking for the wholesale and retail sections of the licensed trade of the province, with reference to the local reaction to the passing on to the public of the recently-imposed increase in duty on beer.
He said that the trade, in both the Wholesale and' retail branches", had no alternative but to act similarly to the petrol companies and transfer the new impost to is customers. Once again it merely acted as a collecting agent for the Government, as it had so frequently done in the pastt. The trade, in neither of its branches, was in a position *o cafry or absorb the new excise duty.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 5
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