AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 1 September 1917, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

TAXING WAE-PROFITS. MELBOURNE, Aug. 31. In. the House today, the War Pi#Fits Bill, was considered, Sir John Forrest (Federal Stoasurer) .announced that businesses would not be taxed unless the profit exceeded £I,OOO. Professions would be excluded from the operation of the bill. NEWCASTLE COAL PRICES. SYDNEY, August 21. j The Goal Board has recommtnded fixing prices of large coal f.o.b. at Newcastle 20/, and small coal 15/. Received 10.35 a.a. v SYDNEY This Day. Woolgrowers have been notified by the State Wool Committee to hold back all wool overseas shipments become normal.

Mr A. A. Cramer, "president of the Auckland Second Division League j who has been touring the Northern Province, says the alien question is a very seriou s one up nortS. "It is all very well saying aliens cannot get their titles registered," he said, "but informed as a positive fact that unhaturallsSd aliens pool their money for getting the property transferred." An evidence that aliens are looking to profit by our men going to the front was" "mentioned in which a foreigner asked an adjacent British settler to sell him some young heifers. When he was told they were not for sale he was met with the reply, "But you will have to go to the front soon. Please give me the first chance to buy those cattle."