CABLE BREVITIES
A squadron of Italian seaplanes commanded by the Air Minister, General Balbo, will attempt to fly to New' York and back in June. Australian returned soldiers are annoyed at the absence for the third year of the Governor-General from -the Armistice Day commemoration in the capital. The New South Wales Assistant Treasurer promised a deputation that the Douglas credit system plan would be submitted to the Government Statistician for an Independent report. • ♦ ♦ Detectives raided a bouse in Alexandria, New South Wales, and found in a dug-out beneath the building a coining plant. An engineer was arrested with 2000 counterfeit coins in his possession. The employees in the bacon-curing works of two Ballarat firms struck because the employers refused a 10/weekly increase in wages, which are now £4/5/6. A meeting of employers later decided to close all works in the State immediately, throwing idle 500 men. » • » Australian Land Tax. A committee representing over fifty inter-State organisations expressed disappointment at the proposed reduction of the Australian Federal land tax Total abolition was considered the only remedy.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 43, 14 November 1932, Page 9
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176CABLE BREVITIES Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 43, 14 November 1932, Page 9
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