Those Tax-Gatherers!
p. 69 · Read in the full issue
THE tax collector never misses a pass.
It is notified in a recent Western Pacific High Commission Gazette that the Administrative Officer of the Phoenix Islands has been appointed col lector of income tax for Canton Island.
Canton Island is a trans-Pacific airways station —otherwise it is a barren, unin habited sand-bank. The few depressed lads who have to live there and service the planes ought to be paid specially by the government, instead of being mulcted in tax for the benefit of the Gilbert and Ellice Colony’s yawning coffers.