VICTORIAN POLITICS.
FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS. PREMIER’S POLICY SPEECH. BV CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—-COPYRIGHT. (MELBOURNE, March 8. The Premier, the Hon. J. Allan, in a policy speech for the forthcoming elections, said that if the Common-; wealth Government proceeded with the proposal to abolish the peir capita payments, the State would be in a chaotic condition. This year capitation payments to Victoria amounted to £144,000. There would he great difficulty in making up this amount in direct taxation. In order to meet the deficit, it was proposed to proceed with the betting tax, which would yield 1-i per cent, on the turnover of each bookmaker. The revenue from the new system would result in an increase of £417,000. Consideration was also being .given to the provision of sinking funds to liquidate soldier settlement loans, which now amounted to £24,000.000. The immigration scheme would lie proceeded with, and a dairy college estimated to cost £30.000, would he established.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 9 March 1927, Page 5
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