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A WOMAN’S FALL
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day
Elizabeth Cullen pleaded guilty to a charge of forging a soldiers allottment for eight pounds eight shillings, and was ■ committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
REVENUE RETURNS. WELLINGTON This Day
lion A Myers states the revenue for June quarter showed an increase of £616,741.
The revenue for the year ended .Tune 30th, showed an increase of £2,339, 299.’ The expenditure for .Tune quarter shows an increase of £797,793, due to the fact that interest and sinking fund charges are growing heavier as the new loans are. issued. Increased charges for invest and sinking fund amount of £63,636. STATEMENT OF WAR LOANS. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Acting-Finance Minister states: Of the loan amounting to £28,000,000 authorised in 1917, there still remained £10,229,000 not yet- raised nnd a fresh war loan of £9,300,000 was issued in March last and subscriptions amounted to £10,482,38-, and the whole of 1917 authorisation have now been oversubscribed by £253,135. TnE OTHER SIDE. WANGANUI, This Day. Regarding the alleged 111-treatment of inmates of Wanganui Detention Barracks, the Wanganui Returned Soldiers Association passed a resolution desiring to assure the Minister of Defence that they were satisfied no undue hardships were meted out to the occupants of the barracks. The association is convinced their treatment is infinitely better than in military camps.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1918, Page 3
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