HEAVILY IN DEBT

Hawera Star, Volume L, 1 December 1930, Page 8

HEAVILY IN DEBT

BERLIN'S MUDDLED FINANCE, STORMY MEETING HELD. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright..) BERLIN, November 28. Because the City Council is obstructing all attempts at interference and ha's refused to pass the 1930 Budget, the Governor of Brandenburg has appointed two State Commissioners to regulate Berlin’s muddled finances, the council is at present in debt to the amount of £5,000,000. The Commissioners will declare and supervise the collection of a pei capita tax of 10 per cent.,, a tax on beer and spirits, and an additional property tax. Similar steps are contemplated in other towns. When the Speaker of the City Council read the Governor’s decree pandemonium broke out. A Communist member, while the Speaker repeatedly called for order, read a violent protest full of insinuations against the Government', demanding that citizens should retuse all municipal taxation. The police at the Speakers’ order ejected all Communists, whereupon the Nationalists marched out on masse. The unemployed broke in and erected barricades with chairs and tables, which the police stormed, overpowering. truncheoning, and ejecting disturbers. . . Five of the police were injured.