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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 3 August 1917, Page 3

The name of Private Stephen Beer, Kyeburn Diggings, was included in last week's list of wounded.

The taxation propo-als of the Government abolish th« excess profits tax, owing to the difficulty of estimating it, and in its place it is intended to ask the House to raise the money required from a progressive land and income tax. A duty on admissions to places of amusement is also to be levied. A Bpecial graduated war tax on incomes is estimated to yield £3,000,000. The Government war loan proposals total £24,000,000, half of which is to be raised without delay. Rate of interest 4J per centfr*e of income tax. In the event of the amount not being raised, a system of compulsory contribution iB suggested under which persons who have not assisted in finance will be subjected to additional taxation. The system will not apply to those whose income is under £7OO per annum.

The Budget shows that the revenue for last year was £18,367,547 and the public expenditure £14,053,770. DEFECTIVE EYESIGH CAUSES •NEURASTHENIA. When a child suffers from that defect in eyesight called Astigmatism, he or she suffers from headache. Hence comes inaptness in work <jnd study, which is frequently associated with a train of nervous symptoms. If your child is Buffering from constant headaches, get his or her eyes tested at once. You may avert years of subsequent trouble. HUGH NEILL, D.8.0.A., Glasgow Optical House, 249 George St., Dunedin.