NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS
PARLIAMENT TO MEET ON MONDAY INQUIRY INTO RAILWAY DISASTERS Sydney, December 17. A proclamation has been issued summoning Parliament for Monday. It is intended to put through .the Budget and Estimates, and taxation measures If necessary, the session will be carried through the holidays to the new vear. The State Cabinet has decided to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into recent disasters and mishaps on the railways throughout the State. Cabinet also decided that the site of the Mint, in Macquarie Street, should be given to St. Andrew’s Cathedral in return for the Cathedral’s present site, which is required by the Railway Commissioners in connection with the underground citv railway. THE NEWSPAPER TAX COUNTRY PRESS SAVED. (Rec. December 17, 10.15 p.m.) Sydney. December 17. A meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Caucus decided that Mr. Lang’s Budget proposals should include a halfpenny per copy tax on newspapers free papers and religions papers to be exempt. There will also be a general circulation exemption of 10,000 copies. Country newspapers . will be saved thereby, and country members of Mr. Lang’s partv, who opposed the tax will be placated. Mr. Lang will also adhere to his proposals to take £350,000 from the Main Roads Board fund to assist him in making up his Budget.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 72, 18 December 1926, Page 11
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