AUSTRALIAN NEWS
N.S.W. BETTING TAX
(Australian Press Association.)
(Received this day at 10 30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 9. Treasury officials estimate the revenue from thb ten per cent tax on bets has been collected at the rate of a million sterling per year. This amount is just half the original estimate of Premier Lang. THE MAGNETIC POLE. SYDNEY, Jan. 9. A message from Sir D. Mawson states:—We have just embarked after two" days’ ashore on King George Y Land, where the British flag was officially hoisted. The hut where I raised the flag twenty years ago still stands, al* though greatly weather worn, , Observations, compared with those of 1912, indiente the Magnetic Pole is one hundred miles closer than formerly, and is now distant only about two hundred miles.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1931, Page 4
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