IN AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17285, 28 September 1916, Page 7

IN AUSTRALIA.

CONSCRIPTION ISSUE. - 'll QUEENSLAND FILLS QUOTA. By Talegriph—Pre.a A««oci»tion—Copyilfhi MELBOURNE, September 27. Enlistments total 26,115, being the quota required during.tho test month in Queensland, s • . 'M ‘ ‘ ' :

CALL TO SINGLE MEN EXPECTED .--•v- £ ON MONDAY. , M (Received September 27, 5.5 p.m.) j v. SYDNEY, September 27. | The jrsjb to |>hh. a

Rent themselves for military duty will fcrobably bo issued on Monday. -■■■ : 1,.. THE WAR CENSUS. Ip,' poo, ooo SINGLE MEN AVAILABLE. I MELBOURNE, September 27. I. The Recruiting Committee, after [making an analysis of the war census, [has forwarded to the Hon G. F. Pearce, ■Minister of Defence, a return showing that 200,000 single men aro available Kn the Commonwealth. I FEDERAL TAXATION. W I LEVY ON WAR PROFITS. I INCOME TAX INCREASED. . | IMPOSTS ON WEALTH TO HELP I REPATRIATION. I (Received September 27, 9.45 p.m.) I MELBOURNE, September 27. |!-Tn the Sonate, Mr Pearce outlined ■the new Federal taxation policy. . It includes an entertainment, tax of a halfIpenny on 3d tickets, a penny on 6d (tickets, and a penny on each additional Itixpence. The tax was expected to [yield in a half-voar £1,000,000. I Under the War Time Profit Tax it is IprppOsed to take 50 per cent of the prompts in 1915-16, allowing an exemption [of £2OO and a profit standard of 5 and 16 per cent. This is estimated to yield | £1,000,000. For 1916-17 the profit I standard will he 7 and 8 per cent, and the exemption £2OO, but the Minister Iproposes to take all war profits over I that. : This is estimated to yield [£2,000,000. . • L There is to be 25 per. cent increase m [the income tax to yield £1.000,000. tho [exemption is reduced to £IOO, with an [ exemption of £156 for married, or single taxpayers, with dependents. I The levy on wealth for the Repatriation Fund is 34 per cent yearly on instruments, and 1} per cent on real and . personal estates over £SOO. The first Instalment is estimated at"£3,333,000.

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; PRESBYTERIAN MODERATOR’S pH CALL. fj WILD DOG OF EUROPE MUST BE Ji. CHAINED. K X (Received September 27, 9.45 p.m.) fe. * SYDNEY. September 27. ■k- The Rev Ronald Maclntyre was electled moderator of the Presbyterian Genef'ral Assembly of Australia. His address 7 was a clarion call for courage and sacritjice. The Empire should not sheath ' tho sword till victory was achieved, . freeing future generations from impending horrors of war and the world from |’the burden of despotism and of depravS fid militarism. Australia stands by that ;|nause to tho end. It impoverish the country and make grdater demands our manhood, but there is not a man | who takes the privilege of Australian /['.citizenship who Iras tho right to refuse Australia’s call. It is not enough that /this Wild Dog of Europe must be [‘ chained in his kennel. We must - present the madness of war and make it ..Impossible for any emperor or king to •plunge bis people into the horrors of war without constitutional consent. No nation should be permitted to go to war - as a preliminary to arbitration. The Assembly carried a motion expressing its firm belief in the righteousness of the Allied cause, and decided to /[support the Government in whatever --measures were necessary for the suc- !• "cessful conduct of tho war. V During the debate Professor Angus itjjid others severely criticised the silence “ of certain neutrals. The Rev Mr Gibson said that the American Eagle had posed before the- ■ world as a rooster on the dunghill of its jwn self-intereGta.