AUSTRALIAN.
SYDNEY, December 20. All restrictions regarding the use of gas have noAv been removed.
BRISBANE, December 20
The Assembly read a first time the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Bill. It empowers the Government to acquire any land for settlement by soldiers, and provides advances up to £500 for discharged soldiers, repayment extending over 40 years. MELBOURNE, December 20.
In the House of Representatives, Mr Poynton moved a 25 per cent increase in the present income tax.
The Treasurer submitted the proposed new tax, which he stated was, in many instances, more likely to mean an increase of 100 per cent than 25 per cent, to operate from July last. The Bill passed all stages. Mr Hughes stated that, in consequence of the scarcity of freight, it was costing as much to despatch a bushel of wheat to England as the farmer received under the pool scheme-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16852, 21 December 1916, Page 7
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