STATE FILM TAX
VALIDITY QUESTIONED
(United Pi-ess Association.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, 14th June. Representatives of big picture fllm distributors applied to the Acting Chief Justice in Chambers in the High Court for an injunction restraining the State Government from levying and collecting a tax on the exhibition of picture films. A declaration was also sought that the Act under which the tax is collected was invalid. The matter has been allowed to stand over until to-morrow, to enable counsel for the Government to confer with the Attorney-General.
(Messages marked "British Official Wire. less," published ta this Issue, aw sent out by the Imperial Affairs Branch of the Prime .Minister's Department of the New SealanS
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 138, 15 June 1927, Page 9
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112STATE FILM TAX Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 138, 15 June 1927, Page 9
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