FOR THE CHILDREN
ENDOWMENT SCHEME Queensland Shows the Way (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received August <> at 11.10 p.m.) BRISBANE, August 0. A child endowment scheme has been adopted bythe Government of Queensland. The cost of the scheme will be £2,250,600 per year, which amount will be found by a five per cent, tax on the wages sheet of every employer. The endowment is not to be paid for the first child; but for the second ana for each subsequent child five shilling per week will lie paid until the child reaches the age of fourteen years.
Workers receiving noe more tlia.i four hundred y.iur.ds yearly will participate in the scheme.
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Grey River Argus, 7 August 1925, Page 5
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111FOR THE CHILDREN Grey River Argus, 7 August 1925, Page 5
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