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Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1922, Page 6

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Mr. Harold Beauchamp SPEAKS OUT If Prohibition Carried Its Effect on Public Finance All Classes Taxed to the Hilt at Present Further Burdens Calamitous Questioned by a New Zealand Times reporter yesterday MR. HAROLD BEAUCHAMP, the wellknown financial expert, said “I haie been strongly urged to make a pronouncement as to what is likely to be the effect on public finance in the event of Prohibition being carried in this Dominion. “In my opinion there can be no doubt whatever that in the event of this country becoming dry it will be exceedingly difficult, in fact almost impossible, to raise revenue from any other source without inflicting undue hardships on the great bulk of the taxpayers to replace that now raised by duty on alcoholic liquors. At the moment all classes of the community are taxed to the hilt and owing to these perilous times through which we are passing thousands are struggling to keep their heads above water. To place any additional burden upon them would therefore be most calamitous. “Having recently visited Canada, I had an opportunity of comparing the prosperity of the Province of Quebec, where the sale of liquor is controlled by the State, with the depressed condition of the other v provinces where the sale of liquor is prohibited. In Quebec the profits to the Government from this source are not less than £2,000,000 per annum, estimated to be sufficient to extinguish the debt of the province in less than fifteen years. These figures speak for themselves.

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