To the Editor of the "NomrH-Cuixa Datty News."
Sin—When you quote the number of ponies for which taxes were paid in 1923 as over 600, did you intend to represent this asthe number of riding ponies for which taxes had been paid, or does this number include carriage ponies, both Chinese and foreign, brokers trap ponies and all others outside livery stables? If carriage ponies ludod in the 600 the num-riding ponies paying the tax ennnot be very great. Again one would like to ask why the owners of riding ponies are allowed to evade paying taxes for their mounts. the rest of the taxation were left dual will, to pay or Rot as we should choose, our revenue would soon be on appar with the first part ey information not going beyond the fect 0 ponies were licen-ed. It is a Municipal regulation that all ponies in the Settlement shall be licensed. However, it is a common practice in all countries of the world to evade possible and in Shanghai pony licence, for the simple reason that a tax collector not very well take post on a riding road, compel a rider to come to a halt and establish the fact that he had a licence. Servants of the Council interested in racing use their knowledge of racing stables to ensure that tax-collectors call on every man who enters ponies for race meetings and it is fairly safe to say that racing men, who spend more money on their' ponies than any. others, are about the only ones who pay the fee. Obviously it is unfair, and a acting men are the ones who ally use the Avenue Foch Fiding track on which to walk their ponies out to the country, and as they are the men who pay most, it is equally unfair that such a very small privilege should be taken away from them, especially ax no benefit could result to the public and the necessary expenditure would mean a waste of money and employment of, plant aly needed cleewhere.—
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