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TAX ON NEWSPAPERS
SYDNEY, Dec. 29.— The country press executive has joined the interstate protest against the new impost on newspapers.
A BIG LOSS,
SYDNEY, Dec. 29. — It is sintieinated that the Post Office balance sheet will show a loss of £500,000 on last year.
PATRIOTIC FUND
SYDNEY, December 29. -—The Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund is £176,233.
BIG UNDERTAKING. MELBOURNE, December 29.— The railway commissioners have arranged contracts for electrifying the suburban railways totalling £2,125,000.
POULTRY PRODUCTION.
MELBOURNE, Dec. 29.— The Govern ment Statistician estimates the gross value of poultry and egg production in 1913 at £17,067,000.
TRADE I^ITH AUSTRALASIA. MELBOURNE, Dec. 29
Apia advises that a proclamation has been issued permitting German firms to trade with British firms in Australasia.
CONTROL OF LIGHTHOUSES,
MELBOURNE, Dec. 29. — The Commonwealth takes control of the ocean lighthouses on April Ist.
COST OF EDTJi
ATION
MELBOURNE, Doe. 29.— 1t is officially announced that the estimated cost of education to the State will be 19s 5d per head during the coming year.
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Grey River Argus, 30 December 1914, Page 7
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