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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 183, 16 June 1916, Page 2

We again draw attention to tho concert to be held on Tuesday ne:»t in the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, when the talented Pierrots will present an entirely new programme of patriotic songs and sketchos. The proceeds of the concert, will go to the Soldier's Farewell Committee and will provide the necessary funds to give each man leaving the district a small present, carrying with it tho good wishes of the community. Tho tickets are 2s to all parts of the hall. With a good programme provided and for such a worthy object we trust residents will roll up in large numbers.

Tired of the vicissitudes of life and iu search of some hospital institution in which to spend his later days on earth, an elderly man named Alfred Tinley, who had been recently working at Paparata, last week made his way to the Pukekohe police station. Brought up at a J.l'.'s Court oil tho formal ehargo of vagraucy ho was remanded for eight days and on Wednesday last, instead of being brought back to Pukekohe, ho appoarod before Mr F. V. Fra/.er, S.M., in Auckland, when he wasconvictod and discharged as a vagrant, arrangements having iu the meantime boon made for his admission to tho Costly llouio.

It is always pleasant to liuil one'o viows mi any matter endorsed by peoplo of intelligence and experience. In this connection wo are pleased to seo that Mr Beauchauip, the chairman of Directors of tho Bank of New Zealand, is in outiro agreement with our oxproseed opinion as to the desirability of imposing a small export tax as tho fairest way of talcing tho farmers' contribution towards the necessary new war-taxes. In our leading columns of tho second and tho sixth of Juno wo advocated tho imposition of a small export tax for this purpose and gave at somo length our reasons tor so doiug. In an interview with a reporter of tho daily press ou tho 1 '2th June, Mr . Beauchauip not only followed our lead by suggesting an export tax, but proposed exactly the vamp amount ns wo did—one-half cent—and instanced preciselypnio samo example as we bid, the grower of wool, as a case in which it would be reasonable to expect a man to contribute somo small part of the increase in his profits to tho cost of the war.

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