AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1930, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

BONDI SURF TRAGEDY

(Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, July 30. A surf-bather, Herbert Stephens aged 30, was seized with cramp at Bondi Bench, and was drowned. His friend, Robert Wilson, aged 22, made repeated plucky- attempts to rescue Stephens, and was himself nearly drowned. Eventually he was brought from the water unconscious.

AUSTRALIAN SALES TAX

OPERATES AUGUST tet. CANBERRA, Jute 30. Unexpectedly the Prime Minister Mr J. 11. Scullin, introduced the Sales Tax -Bill • in the House of Representatives to-day. The tax, which will come into operation on August Ist, will be paid on the sale .value of goods. - \ ' There are important exemptions. These are cigarettes,. newspapers, petrol, household water, gas, meat, bread, beer, : fertiliser, electricity, flour, dairy products, primary products, boxes and orates. ■

The general scheme, Mr? 1 Scullin exiplainedf is that this tax shall be paid, ; ;byj the Twit vendor writhe, gpods to the : retailer oy direct.ratoi-A the'! consumer. , Coiupled- with the'(necessity to (levy the. taxrihnrespebt ofTal imported goods, it lie >• Bi 11 also iequiresithatt-the- retailer!. •yllo imports 1 goods "shallspay.- the. tax at' the time': 6f the : entry-of: the/goods...

AUSTRALIAN: TARIFF, -i

REDUCING : IMPORTS.' - : CANBERRA, July 30. Last week, being the second week in which tlie new primage and special duties operated, the Customs receipts showed a decline of about seventy-five per cent, compared with the corresponding period of the week last year, being £338,000 compared with £1,131,000.

CONSPIRACY CHARGE,

n SYHNHY, July 30. ' Another insurance case is being investigated in the Pol ice Court at Sydpey, four men, Clarence Hague, aged 51, (company secretary), Arthur ißoclie, aged. %j>‘ (manager), Vitfiftn Partridge, '.aged' 38 (director), arid Arthur, Gardner, aged 36 (clerk), all (being charged with conspiracy to, defraud. policy holders in the Federal Building' 'Assurance. Coy., Ltd., and ,-othqr institute,y organisations. ‘ the prosecuting counsel stated that when enie company sold to another, two of the defendants, one- retiring from the directorate, of the company sold, received 000. The case is part heard. . , . ,