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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3046, 17 November 1908, Page 6

STATEMENT SHOWING THE Customs Revenue for uummm mm? Law Courts, Hospitals, and Charitable Aid, and the Mental Hospitals. REVENUE. Spirits .. VY Hlt3 e 9 a • Ale and Beer Excise Duty, Beer Total Duty License Pees .. Total Revenue 556,393 0 0 37,532 0 0 25,158 0 0 103,986 0 0 723,069 0 0 51,144 0 Q £774,213 0 0 EXPENDITURE. Judicial and Legal Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Mental Hospitals Total Expenditure Cr. Balance 330,499 0 0 122,802 0 0 82,756 0 0 536,057 0 0 238,156 0 0 £774,213 0 0 Persons employed in Hotels, Breweries, etc:—Males, 1 4537. Females, 3,820. Total, 8,357. 1 The Revenue thus paid the cost of Law Courts, Hospital and Charitable AM and Mental Hospitals, and there was a balance o£ £238,156 to go to the general revenue of the Even if No-License is to be what the R T o-Licesse party says 'it will be, then this £774,213 of revenue will be lost to the Government, and it will have to be made up some other way, -<j for the Government cannot afford to loose £774,213 a year, and if It has to be made up you "will have to pay some of it At the present time it is a well-known fact that times are none too good, and overdrafts at the banks are pretty much restricted. Are you, then, prepared to pay your share of the £774,213 a year that will have to be made up to square the loss of the revenue ? The short facts of the case are that the taxpayer, and he is mostly the farmer, will have to pay the greater part of this extra taxation, and the shortest way to answer this is to ask yourselves if you would like to pay it, or £ your share of it. There is absolutely no sentiment about this proposal. If No-License means no liquor, as the No-License party says it does, then YOUR TAXATION WILL GO UP, AND YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY IT. The worker in general will contribute a large quota in the way of increased taxation on the absolute necessaries of life, and just now it is aatßwaMttw«..Mi.i.tMgagßi.i.M.fci M M.