Norfolk Is. Taxes
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33 Per Cent. Increase
From Our Own Correspondent
Norfolk Is., Feb. 11.1
A RECENT call for labour, 1 open up the watercouri across the Common at King ston interested a few workers, an a good job is being made of chip ping out the water hyacinth whic was blocking the drain. Wag( are now £2 per day; a similar ca in 1948, when wages were 14/- pe day, probably accounted for th fact that few workers turned up o that occasion.
Workers employed by the eminent are now receiving the bas: wage but this means, of course, th£ the cost of running the Island no is an embarrassing amount and i consequence more money must t raised by various forms of taxatioi The islanders are not happy aboi this either —but it is just a matte of cause and effect.
The sole direct tax in the pa! was 6/- per day for nine days i lieu of nine days’ work on th roads. This has now been put u to £1 per day for nine days; but : is a safe bet that everyone wi still pay rather than work.
The cost of preparing convej ances and registering deeds an mortgages is going up about 600 pe cent., but, of course, it was absurd] low at £1 a time.