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GENERAL ITEMS. Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, December 20. j All the restrictions regarding the use of gas have been removed. Brisbane, December 20. The Assembly passed the lirst reading of the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Bill, which empowers the Government to acquire any land for settlement tor, soldiers, and provides advances up to £SOO for discharged soldiers, the repayment extending over forty years. Melbourne, December 20. In the House of Representatives, Mi- Poynton moved ;> twenty-five pei cent increase on the present income tax. The Treasurer submitted a new tax, which lie stated was in many instances more likely to mean an inc_ of a hundred than twenty-live per cent., to operate from July last. The Bill passed all its stages.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 23, 21 December 1916, Page 8
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