Sydney's Waterside
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Thieves Put Tax on all Pacific
From Our Own Correspondent Papeete, Nov. 16.
THE wharf labourers of Sydney have imposed upon all Pacific communi ties a taxation as cruel and tyran nical as anything devised by the despots of old.
The broaching of cargo by Sydney’s thieves has become recognised as one of the regular items in cost accounting to be listed with freight, customs and cart age charges.
Naturally this added cost of all mer chandise passing through Sydney is passed on to the consumer. This has been going on for nearly half a century.