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THE TAXATION OF BETTING.
TREASURY SCHEMES IN
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The Loudou Morning Poul of March 28th
Fays:--
Our Political Correspondent writes that the Treasury officials are bavily engage in devising the best nathons for taxing bets, It may be remembered, that similar details were prepared by the Tivsary for provious Governments.
MARCONI'S NEXT QUEST.
CONTROL OF WIRELESS WAVES.
Now that wireless broadcasting has been established in this country says the Daily Ja, Senator Marconi is going on an ocean voyage in his famous yacht Elettra with the object of discovering a means of directional control of wireless waves. At the momen waves sent out from a station radiato in all directions. It is Senator Marconi's desire to discover a method whemby waves can be con- trolled so that they go in one direction only Meanwhile, the • question of the taxation of
in a straight line from station to
to station. betting continues to attract attentius, and
Meanwhile
the CRAZO for brundenst a valuable contribution to the discussion and the need
is increasing by leaps and bounds comes from Sir George Fuller, the. Primblems of its organisation cetes daily for tiro solution The pro Minister of Now South, Wales, who is at present in this country.
nore urgent Wireless in: nufacturers and experts discussing the position, ware broadcast "pirate-the man who makes unanimous in their condemnation of the
cown listening-in set and does not pay
licence
..
A WAR MEASURE. Sir George, in an interview on Saturday explained how, by a scheme of taxation of £597,939 has been raised in twelve betting, months. in his State, which has a popula tion of 2,000,000,
He stated that the first Betting Taxa tion. Act was passed in 1915 as a war-time measure of producing revenue. This impused taxes on micing clul and associations, on bookmakers aml on betting The taxes on clubs were levied on tickets which they received from bookmakers and varier in amount from: 30 per cent. in the country districts to 3 per cent. in Sydney. The taxes payable by book- makers were regulated according to the particular courses an enclosures where operations were carried on. In the financial year 1920-21 the taxes yielded £108,911 to the State Treasury,
GANDE, PRICE @ CO., LTD. betting tickets issued by bookmakers.
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By the same et taxation was imposed un This was collected in the shape of a statip duty. At the present time this stamp duty Buated to threepence on every ticket issue in the saddling paddocks, and a penny on those issued in other parts of the rage. courses Bookmakers were also required to furnish monthly statement showing the Bamber of credit bata made, and to pay on then the stamp luty which would have been levie tickets and been issued. From this source the New South Wales Treasurer re- ceived 506,336 in 1920-21.
THE TOTALISATOR.
hi
the
It is the experimentor who is the real said Mr. Leslie MeMichael, the secretary of| person who counts in wireless development," the Radio Society of Great Britain. are 20,000 of them, and the numbers are still 'Thero increasing. They are the class of amateur the manufacturer likes, because they are al enough waya
different buying
parts, but curiously ing because it interferes with their own ex- 1 experimenters do not like broadcast-
periments and transmission.
To
get of
over this difficulty there is a sugges tion that the wave length used for roadensting should be reserved for that poly
is a third class of person who con sitors himself affected by wireless and he, as,
rule, directs his complaints to Senator number of letters from all parts of the world Marconi. The senator produced a large in which people complained of being affected tion," said Senator Marconi by wireless wares. It is all abeer imagina-
The issue of a new sort of wireless licence to bring illicit listeners in under oficial con trol is Postinaster-Cieneral,"
now being considered by the Erening era.
says the London
י; '
WIRELESS 'PHONE.
G.IO. INQUIRY INTO CROSS-
ATLANTIC TALKS.
The Postmaster-General of Great Britain has appointed a committee to consider, in the light of recent progress, the pos sibility, from a technical standpoint, of Transatlantic wireless telephony of sufficient reliability for commercial use, and to advise what practical steps, if any, can at present be taken to develop this means of com- munication.
New South Wales adopted the totalisator. in 1015, and all registered racing clubs and associations are required to establish an approvel machine. The club or association operating a totalisator is allowed to deduct 18 per cent. from the gross receipts and an additional 1 per cent, as a sinking fund to
I pay for the machine, before paying out the winners. Out of the sum thus deducted clubs racing for protit have to pay to the
Treasury $ Stato
per cent of the gross pay- ments into the machine. From other clufs the Stato only collects. 34 per cent. of the gross takings which pass through, the totalisator. The total yield from the total isator tax in 1920-21 was £974,171
A further State tax on admission tickets to Sir, Egraphs and Telephones; }
DEEP SEA SOUNDING.
Aimiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Jackson wil ge the chairman of the committee, and the ther members will be Major-General Mr. RA. Dalzell,
Director of
Collecity and Guilds
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racecourses produced £117,820 in 1920-21. Thus in the aggregate these four forms of Professor W. H. Eccles, Professor of Ap betting taxes yielded to the State £307,238 plied Physics and Electrical Engineering at from a total population of only two millions.the
London Technical Mr. F. Gill and Mr. E. H. Shaugh messy. Major A. G. will act as secretary. This is a sequel, the G.P.O. announces, In the new number of Chamber's Journ atlantic wireless telephony given by the to the recent demonstration of Trans- C. K. Greenwood explains" Deep-Son Sound- Western Electric
In conjunction ing," touching first upon the manner in which expectzel banks are located, buoyed, graph Company and the Radio
with the American Telephone and Tele- and charted, at the difficulties due to cur of New York, when messages of consider rents and incorrect calculations. In deepable length transtilled from America were
inethots are differcut:
Corporation
sca sounding less than a thon audible and intelligible to london
At cuptiis of fatlioms
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BATTLESHIP STEERED BY WIRELESS.
EXPERIMENT IN US. FLEET MANCEUVRES,
when
in the case of such a sounding used, and
weighing thirty pounds"ja the leal can be recovered For depths greater than this, however, Alle Driver" detaching-rod is the best apparatus. In this arrangement the lead sinkers aro hung, by titans of a wire "aling, centrally upon the vertical sounding-tule, which is litter with
Hap valves at top and Lotton, opening upwards. As the had drops through the water the flap-valves of en ni the water ashes through the tube. When the sounding tube strikes botton:
WO things the first place, the Lube is
into Lla
the into the interior, where it is imprisoned by the lower flap-valve. Secondly, the weight of the sinkers, which has hitherto been taken by the wounding wire, notomatically releases the wire sling which sustained them, and the from Shawaiut, several thousand yards
and unding tube is now free
away,
was at all times under perfect be withdrawn to by the wounding wire, leaving the sinkers
Control,
With the vessels moving in opposite dire on the bottom. The sinkorsused varies between fifty al seventy | Mississippé ust
weight of the sims that constantly changing "pate test. to the depth of the water.
In the first. pounds,
at a range of six miles, she fire to rounds When is usually clipped to the short
sixteen hits. above the lead. Sperial soundings are also second attack resulted in foar hits, the rango
Sixteen salvos et distance
alvos from five fin, guns, in the by that time having been mucit increased. of the water at various depths. A thirty The shells were loade! so as to do little sinker is used, and the registering damage, but at the end of the trials the Zora pound sinker thermometers are attached to the lino means of metal clips, usually at intervals by
was 3ft flown by the heal. of a hundred fathoms, clown to a depth of a
The pessibilties of wireless electried ingly shown on March 21st at maneuvres of transmission in naval warfare were strik- the United States Fleet off the Facilic the battleship log, steaming full speed soul on hour, was made to without to escape the ling the battleship simulate an ethiny vessel attempting Hisissippi. The foun was steered by rulio
soft ouze, which is forced risen foutrance to the Panan Canal,
"A registering thevnamster of sin..projectiles
made in order to ascertain the temperature
two
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thousand fathos. For the first huntres THE CANOES OF POLYNESIA fathoms below the surface smaller intervals are customary.
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The fascination of the process is not over looked by the writer.A wanding of 3,000 fathoms requires 75 minutes for its Mr. James Hornell, Director of Fisheries. accomplishment, and the approximate time Madras, who is retiring towards the end
ent will be 31 minutes.
of the present year, intends to devote his tremendous
wire runs out steadily and rapidly subjects in the Pacific, says the Madras minute after minute, for half an hour; while
the seventy-pound lead plunges of Eastern seacraft have
His studies on relationships and origins HONGKONG CIGAR STORE, LTD. downwards from the inmbent blacs anil appreciated
been widely of the surface waters to the binck Australia.
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The Polynesian Society re- through a
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the branching coral hives Unending st
strife of endless lives; Where, leagued about the wildered beat, The rainbow jellies fill and float; And, lilting where the inver lingers, The starfish
all her fingers; Where 'neath bis any rind spines da trips on The
ashock, sea-egg ripples down the: An orange wonder dimly guessed, From darkness where the cuttles rest, Moured o'er the darker deeps that hide The blind white eesnake and his bride, Who, drowsing, nose the long-lost ships Lot down through darkness to their lips.
poading member in recognition of his work in elucidating the migrations of early peoples on the shores of the Indian and Pacific Oceans nor he lins also been elected President of the Anthropological Section of the Indian Science Congress which meets. at Bangalore next January
upon
The investigation which he has in view his retirement, will have as its principal aim a comprehensive and detail. ed study of the canoes of Polynesia. A they exist at
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The
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Thus, the spirit of true romance inspires tion, and Dr. A. C. Haddon, of Cambridge, even such a promic proceeding as sounding one of the foremost
the oceanic depths, where strange creatures agreed to collaborate,ing ethnologists, has fit writing a
Hornell's
of their own phosphorescence; where
results,
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