Australia faces war budget with 125 million in Australia
The 1939 40 budget lays out £125 000 000 for Australian defence and a minimum £35 000 000 overseas war expense funded by British loans. War expenditure for 1940 41 may total £79 000 000, with £50 000 000 borrowed and £20 000 000 raised by extra taxation. The plan seeks to curb inflation, shift over tax burden, and rely on customs excise boosts and loans to fund war needs.
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Australia
Spender
Wi. Spender
London
Customs and Excise
Ange
Central Bank
Estate duty exemptions expanded and sales tax raised
A higher estate duty rate is proposed with an amendment to exempt estates up to £2000 passing to widows and children, plus exemptions for smaller estates of Defence Force members killed on active service. Sales tax rises from 6% to 8.33% to raise £218,000 next year, avoiding items harming low wage earners or employment.
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Spender
Saints Canonised by Pius XI in Vatican Ceremony
In Vatican City Thursday Pope Pius XI canonised two new saints. Marie Pelletier founder of Sisters of the Good Shepherd and Italian girl Jemma Galgani known for heavenly visions and stigmata. Pelletier born 1706 died 1868. Galgani born 1878 died 1903.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
Marie Pelletier
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
Jemma Galgani
Pelletier
Jemma Gagani
Car Seized in Paddington Raid Amid Woolloomooloo Robbery
In the Causes Court a raid on a Paddington garage followed a Woolloomooloo Wharf robbery leading to the seizure of a car and more than 50 000 cigarettes. Mrs Mary Owens of Port Melbourne sues the NSW Collector of Customs for return of the car valued at £400 claiming wrongful detention.
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Sydney
Wooloomooloo
Paddington
Mary Owens
Port Melbourne
Victoria
N.S. W. Collector of Customs
Owens
Herbert Bede Cody
Customs Department
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