7 APRIL 1973, page 21

Skinflint's City Diary

The price of Haslemere Estates, the property group run by Fred Cleary, has fallen back from its 60p run-up last week and is now back down to 264p. The Sunday Times Business News......

To V.a.t.

How wonderful to find a way To tax most things for which we pay. Vat's such a jolly little tax To pay on clothes and cars and snacks, On kettles, nails and sealing-wax. We laud......