EMPIRE RESOURCES.
TAXATION OF CAPITAL A FATAL* MISTAKE,
London, Feb i.
Mr Austen Chamberlain, in a speech in London, said that in view of the wonderful resources of the British Empire at present and its wonderful undeveloped resources, it was easy to see that after the war it would be able to meet its liabilities. Capital in Britain was absolutely sale, and the talk about conscription of wealth was without foundation. The taxation of capital after the war at the moment when the undreamt-of development of our trade was certain to occur would have a fatal effect.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1918, Page 1
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