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NEW SOUTH APPEAL
HIGH COURT CASE.
BIG ARRAY OF LEGAL TALENT.
(Received Monday, 8.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, February 21. The hearing has commenced in the High Court of an application by the Sydney newspapers, “Sun,” “News,” “Herald,” and “Telegraph” to restrain the New South Wales Government from enforcing its halfpenny newspaper tax. Twelve barristers and five King ’s Counsel are engaged in the
The Commonwealth Government has been given leave to intervene to argue the invalidity of the tax on the ground that it constitutes an intrusion into the Commonwealth’s domain.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 22 February 1927, Page 5
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93TAX ON NEWSPAPERS Wairarapa Age, 22 February 1927, Page 5
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