AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 July 1936, Page 11

AUSTRALIA

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] s. AUSTRALIAN SURPLUS. ‘ ADELAIDE, July 2. The financial year has closed with a surplus of £243,500, which will enable Premier Butler to make a general reduction of income taxation. N.S.W. DEFICIT. SYDNEY, July 2. The New South Wales finances for the year, have disclosed a deficit of £1,680,000. This compares with the deficit of 1934-3,5. of £2,850,000. The Government states that it expects to balance the budget by 1936-37. N.S.W. ROAD ACCIDENTS. SYDNEY, July 3. A report furnished by the Commissioner for Road Transport, revealed that 271 persons were killed in road accidents in New South Wales, between January 1 and June 30, compared with 232 during the corresponding period of last year. ‘•WARDROBE” SUSPECT. SYDNEY, July 2. The police have revealed the name of the man wanted in connection with the wardrobe crime. It is William Arthur Scott. Efforts, are still being made to identify fingerprints from the thumb of the body found in the harbour, and the experts have had do employ infra-red photography to aid them in the task, which is so far uncompleted. TIN-CAN MAIL. SYDNEY, July 2. Three thousand letters, from all over Australia, have poured into the office of the Union Steamship Company for tlie “Monowai’s” tin-can mail to the Island of Niuafu, in the Tongan group, where there are only three white men, namely a priest, a storekeeper and a planter. Packed in water-tight tins, the letters will be dropped overboard from the Monowai, which visited the island a year- ago on a similar mission. A native canoe will pick them up. Enthusiastic philatelists have enclosed as much as 30/with their letters, so as to obtain a good selection of Tongan stamps, marked “tin-can mail.”