AND SHIPMENT OF GOLD
TRENCHANT TREASURER
ACTION BY THEODORE
(Halted Tress Association—By Electric Tele.
graph—Copyright.) (Received 19th June, 9 a:m.) CANBERRA, 'This Day. Senate passed the Bill authorising the shipment of £5,000,000 worth of gold. In the House of Representatives, Mr.-Theodore, the Federal Treasurer, announced that legislation would, be introduced immediately increasing the sales tax from 2% to 5 per cent., and the primage duty from 4 to 10 per cent., and also increasing income tax. It was thus hoped to reduce the deficit from £20,000,000 to £4,500,000. . Twenty per cent, cuts would also be made without delay in Public Servants' salaries and exsoldiers' pensions, but due consideration would be given to indigent cases. Pensions would in future be denied the widows of soldiers who remarried, and also the children of such remarriages.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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133AND SHIPMENT OF GOLD Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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