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COUNTERFEIT COINING PLANT. ARREST OF ENGINEER. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 10.45 a.m..) Sydney, this day. Detectives who raided a house in Alexandria found in a dugout beneath the building a complete coining- plant. An engineer was arrested with 2000 counterfeit coins in his possession. LAND TAXATION REDUCTIONS. HALF MEASURES NOT APPROVED. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 12.45 p.m.) Melbourne, this day. A committee representing over fifty inter-State organisations expressed disappointment at the proposed reduction in the Federal Land Tax. The total abolition is considered to to be the only remedy. BACON CURERS' STRIKE. LEADS TO CLOSING OF WORKS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) (Received 10.15 a.m.) Melbourne, this day. The employees of the bacon curing works of two Ballarat firms struck because their employers refused a 10s. weekly increase in their wages. A meeting of employers decided to close all their works in the State immediately, thus making idle 500 men.
DOUGLAS CREDIT SYSTEM. TO BE INVESTIGATED. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) Sydney, this day. The Assistant-Treasurer, Mr. Spooner, promised a deputation that the Douglas credit system would be submitted to the Government Statistician for an independent report. GOVERNOR-GENERAL ABSENT. FROM ARMISTICE COMMEMORATION. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 9.35 a.m.) Canberra, this day. The Returned Soldiers are annoyed at the absence for the third year of the Governor-General from the Armistice Day commemoration in the capital.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3444, 12 November 1932, Page 5
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