IN QUEENSLAND
POLICY SPEECH A PROSPEROUS POSITION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph-MJoipyright), > (Received this day at 12 noon). BRISBANE, March 10. Mr Forgan Smith/in a policy speech, said Laboui, if returned to power, would exempt from relief tax all incomes,up to £2OB penyear,. reduce the tax on higher incomes and remove unnecessary burdens in income taxation. Government would collaborate With the Commonweatlh and other State Governments to give effect to its objective of a forty-hour 'week, with a maximum of forty-four hours. He added that employment was now. at the highest level ever recorded in Queensland and provided export price* did not .sag, the State would be better off than it had been for twelve years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1938, Page 5
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