Budget Speech Reveals Enormous War Liabilities and Tax Hikes
Chancellor Mr. R M'Keena outlines wartime debts and revenue plans in Parliament. He forecasts current year expenditure at 1,590,000,000 with revenue around 272,000,000, and a debt burden climbing to 2,500,000,000 next year. He proposes higher taxes, new duties, and expanded postal and telecommunication charges as part of the effort, with mixed reaction in the House.
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Inside Big Ben the world’s largest clock described
The piece details Big Ben’s interior scale and components. It notes the gigantic hour figures, copper minute bands, a 13 foot pendulum weighing about 700 pounds, and a 14 ton 11 hundredweight hour bell. Winding occurs three times weekly, with cleaners tending the clock during operations.
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Longest bridge plan for San Francisco bay proposed
An ambitious design would create a bridge twenty three hundred feet long over the bay with ten steel cables and a height near one hundred eighty feet. The three deck structure would carry twenty four railroad tracks plus autos and footpaths, resting on massive piers and calasons to resist wind sway.
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Natura Health Co Superintendent to Visit Colac Weekly
Mrs PD M Clifford of the Natura Health Co will visit Colac at the Victoria Hotel on Thursday and Friday from 10 to 7.20 and 10 to 5 respectively. The free consult may help with chronic catarrh piles and general health, plus a free Health Guide for women. Free advice and home treatment details are offered by Natural Health Co at 49 Elizabeth Street Melbourne.
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Natura” Health Co
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