The Making of the Australian Commonwealth 1889 1900 a Stage in the Growth of T
The Making of the Australian Commonwealth 1889 1900 a Stage in the Growth of T
B R Bernhard Ringrose Wise
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Which was finally adopted by the Daily Telegraph. This was the estimate accepted by Mr. Reid, from May to July 1898 ; until the result of the General Election, in August of that year, convinced him that the statisticians were in error, and that, for the sake of Union, New South Wales could accept safely the financial clauses, which, as Chairman of the Finance Committee, he had him- self proposed to the Convention and denounced a few weeks later as ' intolerable ' ! ^ The expenditure of the Comm...onwealth upon the transferred services imposed no new burdens on the people, and did not add a penny to their taxes. The Postal and Telegraphic Services, Defence, Quarantine, Lighthouses, and the other sources of expenditure which the Commonwealth took over, were being paid for by the citizens of the several States, to whom it could make no difference whether they paid their share of the cost to the State or to the Commonwealth Treasurer. In most of the States the transferred services were being run at a loss ; and a return pre- sented to the Convention showed that the net loss in ^ See post, p.
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