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LANG GOVERNMENT’S ACTIONS REDUCTIONS NOW EFFECTIVE By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.] Received Aug. 11, 11.20 p.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 11. The New South Wales public servants’ salaries were paid to-day, five days late. The new pay envelopes will be appreciably lighter, because the recent reductions will then become effective. SALARIES AND WAGES LABOUR'S BIG REDUCTIONS MELBOURNE, Aug. 11. The schedule embodying reductions in Public Service salaries and wag'-s, l.eing introduced with the Emergency Retrenchment Bill in the Victorian Assembly to-day by the Hogan Labour Ministry, provides the following reductions: Six per cent, on salaries up tn £100; 11* per cent between £lOO and £225- 1-11 per cent between £225 and £200; 15* per cent between £261 and £.'112; and 25 per cent on salaries above £312. AUSTRALIA’S PROSPECTS PRESIDENT HOOVER’S OPINION SYDNEY, Aug. 11. Commonwealth loan issues registered increases in the investment market. Bank shares also advanced. Mr H. Brookes, recently Australian Commissioner in the United States, addressing the Constitutional Association on the depression, said that President Hoover expressed the opinion that Australia would recover before either Britain or the United States. PRODUCTION COSTS NEED OF THE FARMERS TARIFF MUST BE REDUCED Received Aug. 11. 9.15 p.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 11. Dr. Earle Page, Leader o’ - the Country Party, addressing a farmers’ conference at Sydney to-day, declared th it the tariff must be cut 25 per cent in order to give the primary industries a chance. STATE LOTTERY STILL MORE APPLICAN 5 Received Aug. 11, 9.15 p.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 11. Yesterday’s applications practically filled the first State lottery. A queue uf optimists waited again to-day for a chance in the second lottery.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 189, 12 August 1931, Page 7
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