HARD HIT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 30 August 1917, Page 5

HARD HIT.

BUT NOT SQUEAKING. “Personally, I come under taxation for except beer and whisky, neither of which I drink,” declared Sir Joseph Ward in the course of hi s reply on the Budget Debate. “I wish I did,” ieterjected a Labour member. “I am only telling .hpn. members,” added the Finance Minister. “I started at scratch as well as the rest of you, that, if anybody is suffering ,on account of being hard hit by taxation, I am hard hit; and, if t is,necessary next year to double the taxation and take practically the whole of the income, the people of this country are prepared to bear it. It s a grand thing to know that the men who are called upon to provide large sums are not squealinfg; and if they were we have to get the money.’ (Hear, hear). A member: “All that most people want to do is to win through the war.” (Hear, hear).