GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1932, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

U.S.A.-1 INTERNAL REVENUE.

(United Press Association—By Electric !

Telegraph—Copyright.)

WASHINGTON, August 23

The Internal Revenue Bureau has revealed drastic reductions in the Government income for the fiscal year just ended. The internal revenue collected for 1931-32 total 1,557,00,000 dollars, as compared with 2,428,000,000 dollars in the previous year.

The income tax collections, however, were 1931-1932: 1,860,000,003 dollars; 1930-1931, 1,050,000,000 dollars. ■

RELIEVING JAPANESE DISTRESS

TOKYO, August 23,

The Japanese sailor, (Prince Takamatsu, has donated half a million yen for the relief of the distress in Japan. Tho Empeyori lias made a bigger donation. A special session of the Diet lias been opened by thqj'Emperior, to consider further relief measures.

VICTORIAN TEXTILE STRIKE

MELBOURNE, August 23

A<• ct«rmy meeting of a thousand metropolitan textile workers endorsed strike proposals at ahl the mills in Melbourne to-morrow The workers refused to accept the o«f'v of he employers fir a settlement of the -dispute on -a. basis of 7> iretead of 15 per cent, reduction in wages a Towed for by the Jij cost of living adjustment. About idiiO'l thousand workers will »be affected.