EFFECT OF DROUGHT
DEFICIT IN QUEENSLAND
BUDGET PRESENTED
BRISBANE, This Day
The Queensland Premier and Treasurer (Mr. W. Forgan-Smith), in presenting the Budget, predicted a deficit of £,1,162,373 for th£ current year. He declared that but for the recent drought there would have been a reasonable prospect of balancing the Budget. The anticipated receipts total £15,036,810, and the expenditure £16^199.183.
A reduction of Id in the pound in the unemployment relief tax, is the only -taxation relief.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 11
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77EFFECT OF DROUGHT Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 11
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