AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 September 1918, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN WAR LOAN V ■ SYDNEY, Sept. 17. The seventh Commonwealth war loan of £10,000,000 was launched to-day, with excellent prospects. A feature is the keen competition between various districts in raising their allotted quotas

INCOME AND LAND TAX | INCREASED. Received 10.5 am. MELBOURNE, this day The Federal Government proposes an. increase in the income tax of 35 per cent and in the land tax an increase of 20 per cent. An additional war tax of a half-penny on letters svill also be imposed. SYDNEY, Sept 17. A shipping trouble is threatened. Fifteen hundred wharfies have struck, owing to an announcement tEat preference is to be given to Loyalists. ‘A great public effort is being organised to give the original Anzacs fitting reception during their furlough. The Assistant Treasurer, in appealing for contributions to the war loaa r forecasted that this would be the last loan immune from state taxation...The* • - Government would not impose furtherState taxes during the war, but intended going after them when war was over. MELBOURNE, Sept 17, The Government has accepted' the Meat Administration's recommendations, involving Increases in the srlces of meat. Negotiations are proceeding -with the Imperial and Indian Governments with a. view to controlling canning operations.