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ENDUCTION OF INCOME TAX

LAFIELD, March 4th.

The newspapers are devoting considerable attention to the prospect that the finances of the year Bow closing will show a con- siderable surplus and are expressing the hope that the Budget for the new year will, therefore, show some relaxation of the heavy. burden of taxation, The

of this more

The Mayor of Oxford, after a consulta burden is consultitly ou tion with the Vice-Chancellor, banned birth-control meeting in the Town Hall. The meeting was subsequently held at Ruskin College, and was addressed by Dr. Marie Stopes. Undergrads assembled, but the Proctor of the University and the palico forbade their attendance at the moeting. Nevertheless a large number succeeded in obtaining admission.

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LEAFIELD, March 4th.

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as the shipped away in a small harp, accordi VI

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'st for late and urgent letters. With these can catch up the steamer when the latter is hundreds of miles outward bound. When the vessel is still hundreds of miles from the English coast the plane will take a flight again and bear letters in advance to Plymouth. Here an acroplane will be wait- ing to rush letters to London.

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wide, having no to over 1 in 40; no curve is e under a quarter mile radius and there limit. Aay aumber of is to be no trailers is permitted. The total cost of ninety miles of roadway, bridges, buildings, and land purchase is estimated at £6,500,000. The promotem believe that teamsport char ges would be reduced by 25 to 30 per cent. tax on tonnage. To make the venture pro Stable,

only motor vehicles should allowed on the road, and pedestrians would be particularly barred. Fassenger vehicles will be welcomed, for which a schedule speed from 30 to 50 miles will be quite feasible. The scheme is merely begin ning and it would be extended later to Manchester and Liverpool."

"POSTER BALLOT " A LOTTERY.

LONDON, March 6th.

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Our aims ara to anable people to enter one of our Celegraph offices and send wire less tolegasms anywhere in the world," stated Mr. Godfrey Isance in elaborating Yesterday's statement to a representative of the Daily Mail. He doolared that the plase included cheaper rates, an expendi ture of between £5,000,000 and £8,000,000. the erection of five high-power stations near London communicating with the The Bow Street magistrate decided that Dominions, the erection of principal trans. the great poster ballot competition is mitting stations in South Africa, India, a lottery and fined the promoters, Joseph Australia and three in Canada, with a Worners fifty guineas. Notice of appeal number of smaller receiving stations in has been given.

Dominion. The smaller each

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TELEPHONE OPERATOR AND SECRETS.

[Joseph Warners, Ltd., lithographers, were summoned fu connection with the Poeter Ballot competition, in which a prize of £3,000 is offered. Tickets at 25. 60. each bave been freely sold Mr. Muskett, on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, suggested that the case might lead to a clear pronounce LONDON, March 7th. Trap messages between stations reportment from a higher court with regard to ing fictitious tragedies dod to the arrest the legitimacy or otherwise of existing of a trunk telephone operator of the poster competitions, Counsel for the de General Post Office, who was charged fened argued that an appeal to the public with divulging the cnversations of two to pronounce on the merits of posters was 67, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,spapers, neither of which after its a valuable guide to the value of advertise own inquiries used the information. The ments, and therefore demanded sill, far. operator, who admitted the charged, was sightedness and knowledge.].

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