THE SURPLUS.
New Zealand is becoming so used to surpluses of half a million or more ait the end of every finanoiai year, that the announcement by the Prime Minister of ii surplus- of three-quarters cf a anilftion for the year ending- March 31s!t >ks,t does not conw as a shock. Tffie eeiti-mates df -i(he Dlomdnion are so nicely .aiTanged /that anyd-hing in the shape of a deficit were almost impossible. Biuit assuming that the surplus shows a bona fide a n create in the .revenue of the- State, w.ha,t- then F During tihe last ten yea;rs the rev-enufe, judging by surpluses, has increased enormously. D!oes it cost the country mue'h nnoro to run: the State services to-day than, at- Aid ten jtouvb ago? If it does nbft, the taxpayers have a right to demand that there shaU be femiteions t-axt?s ; .
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10619, 26 April 1912, Page 4
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141THE SURPLUS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10619, 26 April 1912, Page 4
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