FLAX FROM ABROAD.
Application To Impose Duties Made. AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY. (Received 12.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. \n extensive Australian flax industry with a possible value of £2,000,000 annually was predicted before the Tariff Board. Application was made to the board that flax and hemp should be subject to duties of si 30 per cent British preferential tariff, and 45 per cent general tariff.
NEW TAXATION.
AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE COST. (Received 11.30 a.m.) HOBART, this day. Mr. R. G. Casey, Federal Treasurer, addressing members of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce, said that, because of the heavy expenditure on defence and national ineurance, the Government would be compelled to impose new taxation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 11
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109FLAX FROM ABROAD. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 11
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