SHOULD AUSTRALIA’S HALF-MILLION BACHELORS BE TAXED ?

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1378, 25 March 1915, Page 4

SHOULD AUSTRALIA’S HALF-MILLION BACHELORS BE TAXED ?

In ordinary times the bachelor tax is a joke lo be fired off at smoke-nights and sewing meetings ; but it appears to be a very serious problem just now, for Mr J, B. Sharpe, Federal Member for Oxley, tells Everylady’s Journal for March (just issued) that he intends bringing a Bill before Parliament for the purpose of imposing a tax on Australia’s half-million bachelors. Following up the receipt ot this information, Everylady’s Journal invited a number of prominent men to offer opinions upon the right or wrong of such a tax. Lord Mayor Sir David Hennessy says that bachelors ought to oe taxed, and that he has always advocated a bachelor tax in season and out. Mr Carmichael, Minister of Public instruction in New SovP’- Wak-s, says there are better. v : . v.oth i'aisi*.v> ’■avenue anv of geitii’.g r-ur young men married off. “The girls, ’’ says Mr Car •..o’cbael, “have the remedy k j pv-.ir own hands. They have the { vote —K '. them make toe proposals !” Altogether it is a bright and healthy discussion. Among the descriptive articles in Everylady’s Journal may be mentioned a beautifully illustrated nature study by Charles Barrett, describing the adventures of some Australian bird-lovers ; and a most sympathetic sketch of the Australian Voluntary hospital by Katharine S. Prichard, who, by the way, has just won Hodder and Stoughton’s prize for the best novel submitted in competition.

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