AUSTRALIAN NEWS
THE SALES TAX
(Australian Press Association.)
CANBERRA, August 6
The Federal House of Representatives to-day passed the second reading of the Sales Tax Bill by forty votes to twenty-five. There was considerable protest by many Opposition members that endless confusion would be created by this form of taxation among business men. : ' ; . /. • . v, No‘ RACE DECLARED. (Received this dav at 9. a.m.)' SYDNEY, Aug. 7. .. At a meeting of the Athletic Association of the great public schools, a motion was carried declaring the 1930 eight oar championship “No race.”
The committee made no comment regarding the allegations of irregularities in connection with the training of crews, cabled on 2nd August.
FEDERAL. POLITICS
CANBERRA, Aug. 7.
The House of Representatives agred to a motion by 36 to 22 votes that the Senate’s amendments to the Arbitration Bill should be disagreed with.
OVERSTOCKED. v . PERTH, Aug. 7. Pastoralistv consider/that the low prices for sheep now obtainable necessitate the destruction of a hundred thousand sheep. It |ss estimated Tn Gascoyne district alone about sixty thousand ewes :i will have ,to be slaughtered to prevent pastoral country from becoming overstocked.
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