HIGH WAGES AND COSTS
TAXATION IN CANADA \ c w Plymouth, Aug. 80. "Wages and incomes generally here are high, but so are living costs." states Leading-Aircraftman J. S. Curtis, of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, who is training in Canada, in a letter received in New Plymouth. When in pwale homes on occasions he had talked household economics with the peo-. • h*- 1 said, and ic war clear that in New Zealand the average person h>d a bettor i.-.-.rgm -jf income over expenditure. “Our taxation seems solid,” he states, “but between Dominion and provincial taxes and a host of indirect dips into the public purse taxation here is just as bad if not worse. In fact, the more I see of this country -impressive though it is in many respects the more I realise that we are not so badly off in New Zealand.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 1 September 1942, Page 3
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