MUST PAY THEIR WAY
SYDNEY TRAMS’ POSITION ECONOMIES IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, Sunday. The New South Wales Transport Trust having been told by the treasurer that the tramways must pay tt-eir own costs, has decided to restrict the services except during peak periods. It is hoped in this way to save £4,000 a week, but other economies are imperative. The trust hopes that if the employees agree to further rationing ami to forgo privileges the dismissal of 500 more men may be avoided. On and after October 1 the Vic torian Government will impose an amusement-tax of one penny in the shilling and one halfpenny -on each ad dl The a report, of the Group Valuation Board in West Australia shows that 1 262 holdings on which a total Lt A*» 797 <>22 was expended have been revalued at JE1.296,605. In other words, a sum of about £2,500,000 has been written off.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1077, 15 September 1930, Page 9
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151MUST PAY THEIR WAY Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1077, 15 September 1930, Page 9
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