Fiji’S Surplus
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Reduction of Taxation
SUVA, November 4.
TH E Legislative Council met on November 1.
In his address to the Council, the Governor (Sir Murchison Fletcher) stated that the surplus for 1935 was £41,622, and the accumulated surplus in the Colony’s accounts now was £552,787.
It was proposed to reduce taxation by reducing the following items in the Cus toms tariff: Beer, bottled, 4/- preferential, 6/general, reduction, 2/6 and 4/6; beer, in casks, 3/- and 5/-, reduced to 2/- and 4/-. .
Meat, 2d. and 3d., reduced to Id. and 2d.
Fish, 20 and 40 per cent., reduced to 10 and 30 per cent.