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Tax Relief For Fiji
SPEAKING on the Income Tax Bill in the Fiji Legislative Council, Mr. H. B. Gibson (Eastern Division) said how wel come to country people would be the provision that a taxpayer may deduct from his taxable income any moneys (not exceeding £250 per annum) spent on boarding and other fees for a child at an educa tion institution.
“By his very isolation,” said Mr.
Gibson, “the man in the remoter Islands is forced to send his chil dren to boarding-school. This re lief has come a little late in the lives of many of us, but I want the young people to remember with respect the countless planters, Officials, CSR employees, etc., of the past who, although enjoying comparatively good incomes and paying heavy income tax, never theless spent more—and uncom plainingly, year after year—on the education of children (whose com pany they seldom enjoyed) than they ever spent on themselves.”
Mr. Gibson pointed out that even
the lesser salaried taxpayer in the remote Islands (who was compelled to send his children to Levuka or Suva boarding-schools) could claim relief up to £250 per child.
II Mr. S. H. Yoeman, ADO at Wau, 0 G, 4-T~ and Mrs - Yoer nan, travelled South on leave per December Bulolo Mr. E H. Britten, from Lae, has relieved Mr. Yoeman. Also travel ling south per December Bulolo were Mr. and Mrs. H. Halliday, Mrs.
Clive Cook and two sons, and Mrs J. Hohnen, Snr., who had been holidaying with her son, Mr. J, Hohnen, General Manager of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd.
J John Edward Ward, world famous bird expert and artist, and the first man to capture a New Guinea Bird of Paradise, died in Sydney on January 3, aged 89. Mr. Ward made 14 expeditions to NG to collect rare birds.
II Bishop A. Sorin, MSC, Vicar Apostolic pf Papua, returned to Port Moresby in January after visiting his father in France, whom he had not seen since leaving for New Guinea in 1930.
If Monsieur Roger Duveau, Secre tary of State for French Overseas Territories, paid an official visit to French Oceania and New Caledonia in December, calling at British territories en route from Sydney. M Duveau was making his first official visit to the Pacific Territories.