AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9846, 27 October 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BUDGET

ADELAIDE, Oct,' 24. lin the Legislative Assembly, the Treasurer in his Budget speech, raid tho deficit for the year, was £53,289. He estimated a surplus for the coming year of £9989. The accumulated deficit was £1,592,488, and the public debt £70,100,164, or £152 per head of population, an increase of £ll for the year. It was proposed to increase tho general exemption from the income tax. from £l5O to £2OO, also to ibeveass the deduction for children frtm £3O to £SO where the incomes do not exceed £650. Ihe loss will he made up by an increased land tax.

WATERSIDE TROUBLE IN SYDNEY.

SYDNEY, Oct. 23

Following an inter-Stnte conference of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, it is understood that action will shortly he taken with a view to crushing the Sydney Shipping Free Labor Bureau. The "move, if it eventuates, is not expected to take the form of a general strike but what is described as scientific control of tho situation. WOOD PULP MANUFACTURE IN TASMANIA. HOBART, Oct. 24. In the annual report on the HydroElectric Department, tabled in the Legislative Assembly, it was stated that there were prospects for a large factory for the manufacture of wood .pulp and paper on the North Coast. The industry in all probability would involve a capital expenditure of approximately three millions sterling, and provide employment for 1060 men at the commenccnxmt. Four thousand electric horse-power would he required. AFTERMATH OF POLICE STRIKERIOTING. MELBOURNE, Oct. 24. A motion for the second reading of a private Bill to provide compensation for those who suffered loss through buildings and property being damaged during the police strike riots was defeated in the Assembly by 25 to 14. VICTOR lAN 31AR KETS. • MELBOURNE, Oct. 24. Barley. English, is at 5s to os Gd, oats 2s 9d to 3s potatoes £2 to £3 ss, onions £2O to £27. WOMEN’S LIVING WAGE FIXED AT 38 SHILLINGS.

! ADELAIDE, Oct. 24. The Minister of Industry has received a report from the Board of Industry, declaring thirty-eight f-liil-liijtgs a "week to be a living wage. for an adult female in the metropolitan > area. The report on September 4 declared a 3os wage. ! GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT •j FOR GANGER TREATMENT. • BRISBANE, 0-t. 24. j" A department for cancer treatment . is to be established by the Govern--5 merit out of the funds of a lottery at a tost of £IO.OOO. Every . medical practitioner mill have the right to treat patients there, and the department will be made available to any patient in the State.