AUSTRALIAN NEWS
N.S.W. POLITICS
(Australian Press Association) (United Service).
(Received this day at 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 28
The Income Tax Bill has been further amended in the Legislative Council by raising the exemption from C 250 to .0300.
Mr Boyce, Attorney-General, stated this would mean a reduction of £1(50,000 on the anticipated revenue from the Bill, yet another amendment would then be adopted leaving the exemption at £250 for taxpayers, whose nett incomes exceeded £-100.
The Elections Amendment Bill passed the first reading in the Assembly. It provides for compulsory proferonli:il votin';. New South Wales will he divided into three parts, Sydney, Newcastle, and country areas, having 'lO, 35, and 12 electoral districts respectively. The use mf joint Federal and State rolls was proposed.
DISEASE AMONG PIGS. SYDNEY, November 28
Mortality among pigs in the Tamworth District is causing uneasiness, fifty having died in ten (lays. It is found that the disease is swine fever, and the strictest precautions are being taken.
GRASSHOPPER BLAGUE
SYDNEY, November 28
Clouds of grasshoppers invaded the town of Tomorn, devouring all vegetation in their path. Their ravages will entail heavy losses to the residents. Dense swarms in the streets made motor progress difficult.
VOLUNTEER. W HARE IKS
COMPLAINT
MELBOURNE, November 2,8
The. wharf labourers complain that tin' shipowners are not honouring their promise to accord them preference, after they had first accepted work at a great personal risk. The complainants say they arc still taking risks, one speaker at a mass meeting remarking that they were all marked men. Volunteers were workers not loafers.
PA PF.R-M ATvTNG. PERTH, November 28
VI r Mussen has returned from England where he went on a mission in the interest of a manufacturers company which proposes to establish paper mill’s at Burnie. Tasmania, in co-oper-ation with British paper makers. Several tests already have been made with the Australian eucalyptus hardwoods, which was found eminently suitable A bounty of £4 a ton was promised from the Federal Parliament Some matters remain to be adjusted with the Tasmanian Government before the mills start.
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