AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
GROWING SUM OF TAXATION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, MELBOTONE, July 13. Taxation in the Commonwealth and the States for the financial year 1913-14 totalled £22,882,742, while for 1917-18 it totalled £33,164,470. DRINK AND THE ARMY. SYDNEY, July 13. The Rev. R. 8. Hammond, giving evidence before the committee set up by the Senate to inquire into the liquor question, stated that considerable numbers of men from inebriates homes had been allowed to enlist and been sent overseas. Sometimes after they had been discharged for drunkenness they re-enlisted several times. The bulk were sent back without having fired a shot, and became a charge as returned soldiers upon the public funds. He also declared that a growing evil existed in soldiers' wives spending their husbands' pay in drink.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16902, 15 July 1918, Page 6
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