THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 11, 1989··
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SICK BENEFIT WON'T BE TAXED, SAYS SIMON
There is no intention to make insurance and friendly society and trade union sickness and displacement benefit liable to Income Tax at
the source.
Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, made this clear in the House of Commons, when he said certain comments which were communi- cated to the Press were materially inaccurate.
"The decision of the special com- missioners in a particular case in-
PRIDE VANISHED volves no new principle at all nor
Great Yarmouth was feeling pleased with the B.B.C. yesterday. A relay from Wellington Pier was the first in the series of concert party relays, and yesterday "Bri- tannia Revels" was announced as "No. 1 of Shows from the Sen- side."
But the announcer put his foot in it. He declared at the end of the show: "We are now leaving Great Margate!"
NEW L.N.E.R. ENGINE
is the present practice changed," he said.
"Income tax, where due in such cases, is not and will not he deduct- ed at the source.”
Practical.
AN IMPORTANT LINK IN A.R.P: EFFICIENCY, “ training is being given to civilian volunteers, mostly women tele- phonists, at the Bolton Police Headquarters in the working of the A.R.P. report centre and control room, for which about 150 persons have been enrolled. Telephonists are seen in training receiving mes sages of imaginary air-raid damage in all parts of the borough. SILVER COINS IN JAMAICA WEDDING CAR UPSET
While Mr. Wyntone Harrop and that his bride, formerly Miss Josephine
Asked by Mr. Greenwood whether
A Royal Proclamation in the other people with no such substan- "London Gazette" announces tial income as the individual invol- silver crowns, half-crowns, shillings "Taylor, were driving from their wed- ved in the Commissioners' decision and sixpences of the United King- ding to the reception at Hull the might not be charged income tax on dom are no longer legal tender in car overturned in collision with an- what they obtained from an ap- Jamaica for payment of an amount other car. Wedding guests. tran to proved society or a trade union, Sir exceeding 40s. John replied:--
the rescue and extricated them un- hurt except for shock.
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BANK SMASH AND GRAB
"No, sir. There is no change. This was a particular case, decided The band of the Coldstream as a particular case, and is, I ima- Guards played on the platform of gine, subject to appeal. King's Cross Station as Maj-Gen. "It does not involve any Sir Cecil Pereira drove the "Cold- principle at all and I regret the Roman-road, Bow, E., stream," one of the latest engines apprehension that has been arous- from inside a satchel containing at Abersoch, N. Wales, climbed 60ft to be built by the L.N.E.R., from ed." the station. In the engine cabin
Men in a motor-car broke a win- NURSE RESCUES SHEEP dow at a branch of Barclays Bank new at the corner of Grove-road and Miss Chanie Tanner, a. nurse at and took Guy's Hospital, London, on holiday
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with him were Driver Reynolds ROPE OF SHEETS IN FIRE
and Fireman Darlow, both old
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members of the Coldstream Guards.
papers and drove away.
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down a cliff to rescue a sheep from a ledge.
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SÉAL CAPTURED
During the speedway races
at Paymaster Lieut.-Comdr. R. J. V. West Ham Stadium a fire broke Spurway and his wife slid, down out beneath one of the stands. Fire- COINS AS TREASURE TROVE knotted sheets and blankets to safety men were called and quickly sub-
St. Albans, was when their house in Watford-road, dued the outbreak, which is be- Point, near Penarth, Glamorgan, by A seal captured at Lavernock and the lieved to have been caused by a Mr. William Bebb, after a struggle staircase was unpassable. Mrs. lighted cigarette falling between lasting nearly an hour, may be of- by dense the cracks of the boards on to the fered to Cardiff Corporation to re- Spurway was awakened fumes in her bed room and called "debris beneath. her husband, who has been an invalid.
place one which recently died in Vic- toria Park.
A coroner's jury at Rotherham found that 32 silver pennies of the last Saxon King Harold 2nd, found during excavations in East Bawtry- road, Rotherham, were treasure
trove.
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GASOMETER FIRE SCARE
for some weeks.
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Three German mountaineers,
It is stated in Paris that the Ernst Grob, Ludwig Schmaderer, Cellulose fumes from a blazing Spanish gold, to the value of nearly and Herbert Paidar, are reported resumed between the Vatican and Diplomatic relations have been store drove over 40 Birmingham £10,000,000, which was sent to from Darjeeling to have reached people from their houses when a France during the civil war will be the top of the "Tent," the 24,090ft Uruguay after a break of 28 years. fire broke out in the sheds of a returned to the Bank, of Spain peak in the Himalayas. Birmingham paint manufacturer. within the next fortnight. The blazing sheds were situated only a short distance from the gaso- meters of the city's main gas works.
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Mrs. Rubens, the American Hitler has passed the plans for Four young French canoeists ar- woman who was sentenced to 18 the 1940 winter Olympic Games, rested by the German authorities months' imprisonment on a charge.
which will
take place at Garmisch-
Mr. Bonnet, French Foreign opposite Chalampe, near Mulhouse, been released after being
when they landed in fortified zone of illegally entering Russia, has Partenkirchen, Minister, and Mme. Bonnet gave are being kept in custody,
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a garden party at the Quai d'Orsay
for the French and foreign diplo. matic Press.
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United States military police. have arrested a German, A. Bender, on a charge of trespassing on mili- táry property at Albrook Field, in the Panama Canal zone.
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About 2,000 members of the Bri- tish Legion living in England, and another 500 living on the Continent will be the guests of the French Government between Aug. 4 and 6.
Limitation of Jewish students to 6 per cent, of the total is to be ap. plied in Hungary, not only to the universities but also to Stato se- condary schools,
Gunnery training French Navy, hith Mediterranean port
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Gen. Sir Walter Kirke, Inspector- General of the British Home For- ces, visited Wiborg, Finland, to in- spect the training of the voluntary civil guard.
Four sailors were injured by an explosion in the American yacht Vagrant, belonging to Mr. T. Hamil- ton, of New York, now lying in Cannes harbour.
Isaac Leifer, self-styled “Grand Rabbi of Brooklyn," was sentenced by a Paris court to two years" lin- prisonment and fined £300 for smuggling heroin In prayer books.
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