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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 96, 19 September 1877, Page 3

The land tax question is humorously dealt with by " Atticus " m the Mei-" bourne Leader: — "The Governor m Council has given one of the most unanswerable arguments that can be brought forward m support of a progressive land tax. Sharks m the Bay are nuisances that must be abated. The larger they are, the more • they require to^be kept down; and so a scale of payments is advertised for their capture, increasing gradually with the size of the fish, till a prohibitory limit "is reached, beyond which a monster of the deep cannot live m any tiling like peace. The public simply desire to^ee the same rule applied to land sharks that the Governor-in-Councilhas thought fit at this particular juncture to. apply to sea sharks. ,Tax the small iana shark gently— he cannot do much harm. Put a good round sum on him* when h*e is big enough to swallow, up the farms, antf iii his neighborhood-rfie • is thenV getting-- dangerous. Biit whsn : he Becomes an overgrown monster that" will suffer iothing tp,live -within milesof him— burst him up !"