Second Edition WEST AUSTRALIA.
SPLENDID YEAR’S WORKING REPORTED.
A DEFICIT NEXT YEAR.
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 14, 0.40 a.in.) Perth, December 14. The Treasurer’s financial statement says the dry season in the eastern agricultural districts necessitated extra expenditure for water supply. This prevented the Government collecting conditional purchase rents amounting to £22,000. The revenue for the past year was £3,850,440, and the expenditure £3,734,000. _ After wiping out the deficit with which the year opened there is a balance of £13,399. He estimated next year’s deficit at £104,402. It is intended to introduce graduated land tax and income tax.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 4, 14 December 1911, Page 6
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