"A VERY SOBERING FIGURE."
"It is a very grave and serious fact that we are now passing a Finance Bill which is seeking to xaise by a process of taxation of the people of this (country the ,enormous figure of £834,000,000/' said Sir J'ohn Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a recent speech. "I thinlc that in the wholo of the official career of Mr Gladstone, there was never passed a Budget of as much as £100,000,000. I can remembcr whcn I was a Member of the House of Comnions just before the Great War, the flstomshmeut with which the Budget in the spring of 19l4 was reccived, when it mounted up to the figure of £200,000,000. Even after we allow - 4'or the change in the value of money and other special eireumstances, unquestionably £834,000,000 is a very sobering figure indeed. "
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 202, 11 September 1937, Page 4
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