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Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1925, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

WHAT FILM STARS EARN. NEW YORK. Sept. (i. The incometnx returns were for the The income tax returns were for the to-day under the publicity provisions of the American revenue law. From the President down to the humblest citizen the sources and amounts of income wore revealed. Anyone who cared to see them could do so. although curiously the law does not permit of the publication of any of the details in the

newspapers. The newspapers are. however, allowed to print the amounts paid on incomes, and big headlines reveal what prominent business men and leading figures in various walks ol lit*' contributed to the Government.

| t u;is revealed that President Cooligc paid £2.81(5. indicating his taxable income was £1(5,000. or £I,OOO more than his salary as ehiel of the Executive. The Ford Motor Company paid £4.298.002. indicating net taxable profits of nearly £24.000.000 while Mr Heiirv Ford personally was taxed at about £521.700. and his son. Mr Edsel Furtl, at £151.901, each possessing income* of C 1.01)0,00(1. Mr John D. Rockleller. jun., son of the Standard Oil King, again jutitl one of the largest personal taxes, his assessment being about £1.2->5.55T. or about half bis income. THE FILM STARS. Li the next column one could see that Mr Douglas Fairbanks paitl £40.148, making bis income nearly CIOO.000. Ali-s Gloria Swanson, now the Marquis tie Fallaise, is revealed as one of the wealthiest screen stars, through payment of £ll,-115 on an income of £45.000 Miss Alary Bickford conics next in Hollywood with £0 815 tax on an income of £24.000. Miss l’ola Negri's taxable income is £17,000. whereon she paid £5.177. Air Harold Lloyd v- the most prosperous among; the film comedians, bis tax of £5.040 indicating an income of L'25.000. while Air Charlie Chaplin pays the insignificant tax of £O9. because of the huge production cost of the pictures he made during the year, upon which the returns have not yet begun.

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AN l M l!li FI.I.A’S ACK. !.()N DON. Spetemhcr !i. •' I m.\ II (111 umbrella licit. I Ill'll' < ill l it-,! i,ii- I-' vi';i r■ . I I (link 11 must In.' mi Klluli -Ii record." In these miiiil'. mi Killing mini ■ ssiK’-f a i-iinlli'imi' ""'1 I'l> '''‘'li- l" -I'"" tl'i'till., siaiemeni I lull mi A ini'i'ii-n ii bus 11-,,1 one 1111>11,1 • 11:1 tin- n years t" uni ~ will! 11 '■■.•lll'. liii’ A tin: rii-it ti i> -Mr I'.rnest 11. Acki'i'mnn. nl I‘lainlield, New Jersey, :i number nt ('oiioress. I'orty-live v ;l 1 ■ iw,, |k. uiinei'i'il mi Kunlisliniiin tlint, he Mould li-iiiiii hi' ii in lirt'l In I'M' n lniifioi periinl than the uther wnillil hi,. Tlw I'.ue li'hum n’' miihivlhi was lust altei three veal's hill niter -l.'i veals M.r Aekennnii and his nre still linn friends. Ii siitl in I s very strange In me,' said a Scollaml Van I ollieial, to whom the storv was mid yesterday. I mhrellas. mainly women’s, are lirunp;!il into im r Inst property nlliee at the live rape rate nl about lot) a ilay. FOIiUFTFF I. Tit A VKI.I.KHS. A London. .Midland, and Seottisli liailway ollieial said: " I think these record-holder' must live far away trout our line. We Ii nd nmhrellns m linn ( | * A rrportiT to how lone they had owned their j present unihrellas. The answers were: I. Ten days. •j Si?: weeks. It I.elon.es to the limn who took mine in mistake. :i. Dash!- - that reminds me. Ive left mine at the elilh. I. Two months. |' V( , eiven no Imyine them. A year. Imt I've only used it a limit twin'. It never rains it | take il out. 7. A week. S. Three months. 1 lost one a Iriend lent me a week aft". |l. Since last winter. 1(1. Two years. 11. Kmlit months. IJelore that Iliad one two years. 12. Sis months. To all these people the man who had curried his umbrella for 17. years seemed hardly human. Ihit probably there are more like him. OFTtMAN CTTLF.KY. LONDON. Sept. 7.

Alderman William Farewell WardIvy. who. .starting life as an anvil boy in a cutlery forge, became Sheffield's til-si Labour Lord Mayor, discussing the practice of reselling (let-man cutlery, which, he alleges, is pursued by some firms, say:-: If the Germans are healing us lot price. it is the duty of our mnnufiuturers to pot to grips with the prob Tom and find a solution.

Ins toad of that, there i- a section iv!io.se member- -ay. “Tlm-e articles we ran heat the German in we will continue to produce, hut where we cannot heat him we will buy his stuff and supply our customers with it. These business men cannot he punished for false marking, because the German goods so distributed through British channels are not marked at all; hut the mischievous feature of it is that they are quoted in British catalogues and priced on British invoices side by side with British goods. "The public .should be warned against the purchase of cutlery from Sheffield unless it hears approved trade marks and the word ‘Sheffield. a manufacturer stated.

M \KTXG NEW FORESTS. LONDON. Sept. 7. Between now and next spring more than 39,CKV>.00f> new trees will have been planted in Great Britain. This is the programme arranged lor the olanting season, which begins next month, by" the Forestry Commission, which has aireadv been engaged for five years in the work of restoring the forest of England. Wales and Scotland. By the end of the season these trees will occupy *22.000 rtcres of what would otherwise he chiefly waste land, the proportion being on an average Efrees tfl Ah here,

Since it. began iix work the Ciwuinissjolt has planted 52..">00 acres acid assisted local authorities and private owners to plant another oH.OOO acres. This has resulted in IS-UXXI.OOO new trees being planted. The programme, Spread over ten years, provides tor bite planting of 250,000 acres with -150.000.000 trees. The largest English plnlitaiinn is at Thetford in Norfolk, where a forest of a I tout 24.000 acres, about the siv.e of the New Forest, is being created. R E'ITRX IN 20 YKAISS. Most of the trees planted consist ol' di Heron I varieties ol tir and spruce: and 20 years front the first planting liter will begin to show returns. At present we import £-.it),000,000 worth of timber annually. All the trees are grown frtun see/! in the Forestry Commission’s own nurseries, which now cover 482 acres. I hoy grow- lot- three years from the .seed before being planted out. An interesting development of the work is the institution of forest holdings. Approved forest, workers: will rent, a maximum ol ten acres ol plough and pasture hind and a cottage neat the pew forests. I hey will lie gmuantced 150 days’ work a year in the forest during the autumn and winter, and during the rest, of thiv time will work on their own small holdings. More than 150 such forest, holdings will have been created bv tile end nt Litis year, and in Scotland Lite ( ontmission 'is erecting Weir steel houses for them.