N.S. WALES POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19976, 18 December 1926, Page 13

N.S. WALES POLITICS

PARLIAMENT SUMMONED. AN EMERGENCY SESSION. (Prese Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. I SYDNEY, December 17. A proclamation has been issued summoning Parlaimcnt for Monday. It is intended to put through the Budget and the Estimates and taxation measures. If necessary, the session will he earned through the holidays to Now Year. Cabinet has decided to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into recent disasters and. mishaps on the railways throughout the State. It has also decided that the site of the mint in Macquarie street should be given to St. Andrew’s Cathedral in return for the cathedral’s present site, which is required by the Railway Commissioners in connection with the underground qity railway. THE BUDGET PROPOSALS. NEWSPAPER TAX RETAINED, SYDNEY, December 17. (Received Dec. 17, at 11 p.m.) A meeting of the Parliamentary Labour caucus decided that Mr Lang’s Budget proposals should include a tax of -id per copy on newspapers. Free piapers and religions papers arc to be exempt. There will also be a general circulation exemption of 10,000 copies. Country newspapers will be saved by this exemption, and the country members of Mr Lang's party, who opposed the tax, will be placated. Mr Lang will also adhere to his proposals to take £350,000 from tho Main Roads Board fund to assist him in making up his Budget.