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Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1922, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.2. CAUL* ASSOCIATION. !T. j N.S.W. BUDGET. SYDNEY, Sept 15. ,1 In tile Assembly, Mr Cocks deliver- -] I ing the Budget, announced the esti- '* I mated revenue was £35,472.0(H) arid [ expenditure £35,400,1.00. No details re l were given respecting the proposals j for reduction of taxation, but it is understood exemption will be reduced j to £2OO sterling, as a set off to the f s ~ I abolition of sixpence in the pound ■ i supertax. The railway position is so I gloomy it will not permit of drastic 0 I reduction of fares and freights. State, j enterprises showed a total loss of I £105,000 including timber yards. ; There was a loss ol forty thousand l_ j on trawlers. ’;| N.S.W. BUDGET, j,. I . Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) it ! SYDNEY, Sept. 15. i Mr Clocks income lax estimates are framed oii the assumption of £253.000 less to he collected this year thilii Inst, j and provide that taxpayers with mos- ' derate incomes lie given (onsiderable it relief. The budget makes no proid vision this year to wipe out. the accus mulatcd deficit of £3.758,000 or pro- . vide a sinking 'fund for existing pub•t lie deficit of £777,000. Government generally aims at economy without, ,1 however, attempting in any way to it underpay public servants. . 0 j • SYDNEY. Sept. 15. | Ahsurdum lias been scratched for o the Epsom. >! NEW LICENSING BILL. ,1 1 SYDNEY. Sept. 15. -■ i Afc Ley has drafted a liquor liill pro- :. riding for a number of sweeping i changes. A fee of two per cent is to ■ he charged publicans on all purchasing. and a special fee payable by ie brewers, is expected to produce an ii additional revenue of £30,000. No vine licenses will he granted in tntur" a to women, nor shall women except t" >' wife and daugliters of a licensee he d permitted lo he employed about a bar. i| The hill also prohibits the carrying .. away of liquor from licensed premis-s d during jirohibited heurs. " : ANTf-DUMI’ING LAW. v 1 MELBOURNE, Sent. 15 Th" Minister of Customs has apnlicd • the nrovisions of the anti-dumping - legislalion to (ierman <ioiis alid gloves. i AMUSEMENT TAX. e MELBOURNE, £ojit. 15 y 111 the House of Representatives the T'—auiivr moved a remission of t'"' ... eot-'i-taiuincnts lax where the price <>l • admission is under one shilling. This " was carried by 27 to 5.