Taxes For Native Benefits
pp. 49-50 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Dec. 20.
THE recently published account of the Native Taxation Fund shows that the total collected during the year ended June 30, 1938, was £14,647. This leaves a nett revenue for the Fund of £12,600.
Of this amount £4,299 goes to the Na tive Education Fund, and the balance of £8,301 to Native Benefits.
Since the inauguration of the tax, a total of £305,859 has been collected at a cost of £42,351.
In all, £100,642 has been expended on Native Education, which sum includes £959 excess of expenditure over receipts for Agriculture, and £144,829 on Native Benefits, i.e., Medical Services, Family Bonus, and Anthropology.
An amount of £18,305 is held in re serve.
Miss Thynne has joined the nursing staff of the Government Hospital, Apia.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Clift returned to Sydney at the end of December by the “Bulolo” after a visit to Papua and New Guinea. Mr. Clift is a director of Messrs. Grace Bros., Pty., Ltd., one of Sydney’s big stores.
Mr. A. Richards, of Rabaul, New Guinea, who has been associated with the copra industry for many years, reached Melbourne in December on his way back to the Mandated Terri tory after an extensive tour abroad.
He visited Berlin, Brussels, Holland,
Paris, the Somme battlefields, and England.
Hon. George Finau Matekitoga Ulukalala, a Noble of Hihifo, Vavau, and Speaker of the Tongan Legislative Assembly, died in November.
Mr. E. J. Frame, manager of the British New Guinea Trading Co., Papua, arrived in Australia by the December “Macdhui” to seek medical attention. He will return to Port Moresby at the end of January.