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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4591, 22 August 1923, Page 2

• J“In Texas they have a tax pn spirit,” said a returned Wellingtonian to the Dominion. “It usually amounts to y 2 d per gallon, which costs 9%d. Everybody there thinks, it is the fairest tax for the upkeep of the roads. The man who motors a good deal pays his tax proportionately to the amount of petrol he consumes, but the tax does not press heavily on the man wbo only uses his car occasionally, at week ends. Wages are the same as in New Zealand. There are no industrial troubles and very few unemployed. Mexicans do all the work on .the railways. Schools are good, and the churches are well attended. The white and coloured populations have separate railway carriages and wait-ing-rooms. Cotton, corn, wheat, and cattle are the industries. The cattle are chiefly Herefords. Dancing is most entirely prohibited. There are 1 no fixed sports,- although while I was .there forty men were arrested for being associated with cock-fighting.” Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs and golds, never falls.