AUSTRALIA
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] HARBOUR BRIDGE SUICIDE. . SYDNEY, June .11. Francis Thomson, 51, leaped from the harbour bridge and was killed. ’ His body fell alongside a Customs launch, and splashed .the officials and' crew. They saw the body -hurtling through the ail’. , The man was still alive when drag-, ged aboard, but died later. He leaves a wife and eight children. COMMONWEALTH -REVENUE. ( SYDNEY, June 10. . The total revenue received by the Commonwealth for the past eleven months of the present financial year is £61,826,000,-of which £-7,620.000 represents receipts from Hie sales tax. It is expected that -the deficit at the? end of .the year .will .he very plight.' here is even a strong possibility of a small surplus, especially if the New South Wales interest payments are met in .the near future-
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 June 1932, Page 2
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