TAX DEFAULTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 282, 28 November 1932, Page 7

TAX DEFAULTERS.

Serious Situation Arises in Central India. WAR VETERANS WILL NOT PAY. ' CALCUTTA, November 27. A serious situation has arisen in Alwar, a State in Central India. The peasants in 100 villages are refusing to pay land revenue to the Maharajah. The resisters include hundreds of men who served in the Great War. They have armed themselves with ancient rifles and muskets and have destroyed the roads and barricaded the passes leading to their villages. The men now are defying th© tax collectors. i ENCOURAGING. SIGNS. RECOVERY IN N.S.W. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Speaking at Orange, the Assistant State Treasurer, Mr. C. S. Spooner, said that there were already signs of the State's recovery. There _ was, for example, a real reduction in the sum total of unemployment, an improvement in the Government revenues, a tendency for investment in the State, a return of money to New South Wales, and a revival of building activities. A DOZEN SUICIDES. HARBOUR BRIDGE DEATHS. SYDNEY, November 27. An elderly, unidentified man committed suicide by jumping off the Sydney Harbour Bridge this afternoon. This makes the twelfth victim since the official opening of the bridge.