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HIGHER TAXES PREDICTED. SYDNEY, May 15.
Mr. Menzies said that increased taxation seems inevitable, but he could not make a definite statement at this stage, because he could not anticipate the contents of the Budget, on which he had. not yet begun work.
BAN ON BATHING COSTUMES. SYDNEY, May 15.
Under a new transport regulation, people wearing bathing costumes or bathing trunks will be forbidden to travel on trams and buses, in the Sydney and Newcastle metropolitan districts.
ABORIGINALS: DROWNED. BRISBANE, May 15.
Four aborigines are believed to have perished when a launch capsized off Palm Island, an aboriginal settlement. A party of ten, comprising seven men and three boys, were aboard when the boat overturned in a choppy sea. The survivors swam three miles to the land.
LUGGER WRECKED. DARWIN, May 15.
A message, brought by a fisherman, stated that four men whose lugger .was. .. wrecked a fortnight ago on Horseshoe Reef, about 50 miles south-west of Darwin, are now at Point Charles, and are suffering seriously from the privations they have endured. One is blinded by sandy blight. From the meagre details available. X it appears that the men were sailing the lugger from Broome to Darwin.’ £ when i.t was wrecked. The men lost « all provisions. They made their way C to Grose island, and eventually stag- ” gered into a farm near Point Charles. «
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 May 1939, Page 7
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