An Increase of 43.9 Yer Cent.: Residents Against Speed Limit: Problem of Population none Oun Own Conesronsrnr Sidney, Apr, 1.
The subject of road ' accidents, fatal and injurious, is attracting inerescingly close attention in New South Weles, and well it may. Public opinion is still far from being as alive to this danger as it should be, yet, even s0, It is obvious to the east thoughtful that the statistics of last' year's highway casualties were in all conscience bad enough. In the stale of New South Wales, 425 persons were killed, and about 8,000 Injured (the murders for 1935, totalled only twenty). Yet the current rate which, if maintained, will far exceed the traMe death roll of 1035. The increase of fatalities for Janusry and February is 43.0 per cent. This means 82 deaths in Two "months. This. in spite of the fact that the increase motor registrations for the past year wae only 75 per cent, This is garded as a very serious state of Affairs, so much so that the authorities have convened a comprehensive conference to survey exhaustively the whole position, has composed an oMfcial reply in thyme {to a Melbourne taxpayer secking time to pay. The taxpayer was poetic. He couched his applica tion to the Commissioner in a moving rhythm with a pathetic Jingle, too, but the Commissioner was poetic
He adopted the same rhythm and Jingle for his reply, and xed the taxpayer's time to pay. The taxpayex's plea was—
"My friend, 1¢ T mayteall thee friend, Who fearly through the post doth send 'That Interesting billet deux, 'Which says, that income tax ts due, Treally' find it very hard To thank thee for thy New Year Card. Now though my taxes T'@ not shirk, Tye still. lad who's out of work, And as my family. older. grows, So with them, grow financial woe 'And though my" album's looking gay With sit the stamps T've put away, Teneeds another pare oF two To'sco the business. uleely throw And to the object of this rhyme Just to sock some further time In which T-may the stocking it 'To Tiquldate' your bil The Taxation Commissioner's reply
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