AUSTRALIAN NEWS
INSURANCE PREMIUMS. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, Sept.. 26. Advices has been received that London underwriters have raised the premiums for insuring Australian coal cargoes to about £3 per cent, as the result of a succession of fires aboard steamers bringing coal to Australia. It is also likely that the cost of insuring the vessels themselves will lie substantially increased, so that a hardening of freight's, which are now. at a low figure is inevitable. MAGISTRATE FINED. BRISBANE, September 25. At a Summons Court, Robert Dunlop, a police magistrate, was fined £24 sterling for having failed to supply income tax returns.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1929, Page 5
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