T.P. TO EXCESS.
DANGER IN AUSTRALIA.
SYDNEY, May 17. In dealing with the high rate of taxation and the recurrent surpluses over his estimates the Federal Treasurer, Dr. Earle Page, said' the development of the time-payment system in Australia was proceeding at an alarming rate. The result was that the prospective wealth of the community was being pledged for goods, many of them foreign, at a rate which could not be forecasted. This had resulted in the ever-increas-ing import of such luxuries as motor cars, musical instruments and similar goods.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 115, 18 May 1927, Page 7
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