On inquiry as to whether it the same old revenue office maintained one is informed that it is not but a "Local Products Revenue" office. And this "local products" includes the peanuts and sesamum seeds from the soil, and the fobes and silk from the machin and the Icoms of rural industry.
sra} sources I am informed not the incoming goods that pays revenue but the export, travelling beyond a sixty li point, that adds all that is now collected Ifrom this special revenue, At the same time it is said that lspecially heavy burdens must from Inow on be borne by wines and tobacco, I have not learned when ther "imports" must still pay on these two categories.
For the first time we are hearing lof an "Income tax" to be collected. For a long time past officials have, for one reason or another, been foreed to make "contributions" of from ten to fifty per cent. of their alaries. The constant wail of school teachers in this province has been that they are paid but a small lpercentum of contract figures. Now, Ihowever, to in making good kin lose "presumably lof the official and "incomes" of the merchant must pay. The rate at present does not seem to be exhhorbitant, as it is but 24 per cent. Jon incomes of a thousand doll la year and 7b per cent, on lover that amount.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.