PAYMENTS TO THE STATES.
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT FOR THE WEST. (Received . August 21, 1 a.m.) MfcLBOruNK, August 20. The Premiers' Conference, which concluded its sittings to-day, resolved :— (1) To make a complete investigation in regard to the consolidating and transferring of State debts. (2) That, in order to give freedom to the Commonwealth in levying Customs and excise, the Commonwealth shall, after Julv 1, 1910, pay monthly to the States a sum calculated at the rate of 25s per annum per head of the population.
(3) In view of the heavy obligations incurred in the payment of old age pensions, the Commonwealth may, during the current' financial year, retain from the amount to be returned to the States a sum not exceeding £600,000.
(4) That an annual payment should be made to West Australia of % a quarter of a million in 1910 and .1911, after that year the amount diminishing at the rate of £10,000 annually, half, of this special amount to bo deducted from the sum paid by the Commonwealth to the other States.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14145, 21 August 1909, Page 7
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174PAYMENTS TO THE STATES. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14145, 21 August 1909, Page 7
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