SMOKERS PAY
THE HIGH TAX. (Australian .P , e3 * Association.) ' SYDNEY, 'August 12. *■- Tobacco smokers in Australia last year contributed more than six million sterling to th© Commonwealth re- ' venue, so an authority here stated. Rew smokers, ho said, realised that •when they bought a two ounce packet of ' Virginia leaf tobacco, they ..contributed eleven-pence farthing .to the rev- , enue, while more than three pence was the revenue contribution from a sixpenny packet of cigarettes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1931, Page 5
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74SMOKERS PAY Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1931, Page 5
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