1939-09-29 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1939.

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MORE TAXES AND SALARY CUTS

LIKELY IN CEYLON

A SPECIAL MEETING of the Ceylon Board of Min- isters to examine the financial situation was held last week.

The position is that the war has upset the calcula- tions of the Board of Ministers and a whole revision of policy to meet the changed situation has been rendered imperative.

The Financial Secretary, it is learn-

Special attention is to be paid by ed submitted a statement to the the Board to the defence expenditure Board outlining the aggravated finan- which will require to be met during cial situation which, in his opinion, the duration of the War. will have to be faced by the most rigorous economy in Government ex- penditure.

In this connection the possibility of partial domobilisation of the Defence Force at an early date will be gone

The war conditions, it is anticipat- into. ed, will severely affect all channels of Relief in this respect will depend Government revenue on the one side; on the indications of the international and on the other impose a serve strain situation so far as the safety of Cey- on the Government's slender resour- lon is concerned.

ces in consequence of the inevitable

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increased expenditure on defence. Now To Be Taxed

The Board of Ministers, it is stated,

will be compelled to adopt special Commissioners for Income Tax de- measures to safeguard the exchequer cided that recipients of Sickness and from bankruptcy, and proposals which disablement benefits, paid by approved will be examined in this connection and friendly societies, trade will be the imposition of

unions, a salary and other bodies, are liable to income "cut" on Government servants and tax on the amounts received. further taxation, possibly an Increase benefits are now "annual payments" The

of Income Tax.

within the meaning of Case 111 of As regards the Budget which is it Schedule D of the Income Tax Act, present being dealt with by the State 1918. Council, the Board's policy will be to avoid expenditure on every non- essential item and so reduce expen- diture on public works to the irre- ducible minimum.

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Queen To Launch

Battleship

THEY'RE TOUGH, MIGHTY T OUGH IN THE NAVEE—It needs a pretty tough crew, to heave a two- ton cutter around for a couple of miles and this seamen's crew from H.M.8. 'Shropshire look, tough al- right. They are not exactly an "el ght" out for a practice paddle--they definitely mean business. (Copyright, Fox).

Adam Statue

Scratched

Quads Much Better

Ann and Paul' Miles, two of the St. Neots, Hunts, quads who are ill with bronchitis, are now much better. who have had.

Five small scratches discovered on Ernest and Michael

Even loan works for which money has already been earmarked will be The Queen will launch the new a leg subjected to a close scrutiny before £8,000,000 battleship Duke of York at is on exhibition at Blackpool, are be-

of Epstein's "Adam," which slight colds, are fully recovered. any of them are embarked upon in Clydebank on September 16, it was lieved to have been made by souvenir

點 添 view of the urgent need for conserv- officially announced from Buckingham hunters trying to ing Government's cash resources. Palace. The battleship is being built penknives. Some of these items will be indefinite- by John Brown and Co., Ltd., Clyde- Ty deferred.

bank.

THE LION ROARB—Dictatorial expression was written" all, over the face of this Kon when he showed his resentment of the approach of the photographor. A romarkabio: photograph-of a lion and hii, mate. In the Kruger National Park in the Transvaal. (Copyright, Fox).

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secure chips with Charles Dickens's

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£410 For Piece Of Stone

"Double"

Councillor J. T. Hawes, Mayor of

A number of pre-historic antiquities, Chatham, who is regarded as Charles property of Mr. William Hearst, re- Dickens's double, has accepted the moved from St. Donat's Castle. Wales mayoralty for the second year. were auctioned in London. High prices

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were paid for pieces of Egyptian line- 30 Times Round

stone. One of these, a piece of the

eighteenth dynasty, fifteen inches-by..

thirteen inches, was sold for £410. The World

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Triplets Brothers 60

Ernest, Albert and Mortimer Mor- ten, who were born at Beeley Hill Top Farm, near Bakewell, Derbyshire, on July 31, 1879, have celebrated their

Mr. Arthur K. Rhoden, 73, of Hol- land Park, London, W., a steel mer- Canadian Pacific liner Montrose after chant, landed at Liverpool from the his 30th trip around the world,

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60th birthday. Thanksgiving services Fountain Sends

were held in Beeley Methodist Church,

and after a family gathering at their Up Scent

old home, villagers. were en-

tertained in the methodist school.

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Earnest is a baker at Borough- A fountain which spouts scent has bridge, Yorks; Albert lives at. been erected in the middle of the Matlock Bath; and Mortimer is a farm-

"Ether Oil Plants" Pavilion at the

er at Stanley Common, near Derby. Soviet Union's Agricultural Exhibi-

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Duty Down On Imported V. C. Leads Boys

Cherries

The duty of 25 per cent. on preserved cherries (other than cherries in syrup) is to be reduced to 15 per cent. The idea is to help jam manufacturers.

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More U.S. Anti-Nazi

Films

Hollywood is to go on producing an tf-Nazi films. Following "Confessions of a Nazi Spy."-two more films dealing with German political conditions are to be produced soon.

To Canada

V.C., twenty-six boys from British Led by the Rev. Geoffrey Woolley, public schools sailed in the Cunard White Star liner Aurania from Sout hampton to Canada under the School Empire Tour schemê.

"Oldest watch in the English-speak- ing world" is claim made for a Saxon pocket-sundial, found recently during alterations to the Cloister Garth at Canterbury Cathedral. It consists of a silver tablet, marked with the months and attached to a gold chain and with a gold pin or gnomon.