The Exeter Advocate, 1920-6-24, Page 3Summary of Changes in "Luxury" Tax
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A despatch from Ottawa sa of more than 40 per cent, proof sole-
following changes in taxation paesed its are reduced frem 30 per cent. to
the Dominion House: 20 per event.
The tax of 10 per cent now applies Jewelers are to pay 10 per eent. tax
on men's hats over $7 each. Formerly; on turnover, unless receipts from sta-
hats were taxed over $5. tionerv, books and magazines, spec -
Underwear (exeept silk) is now tax- tacles and eyeglasses, can eras and
able over 34 per garment or $8 for gramophone records.
combination suits. Formerly these Candies and cakes in cartons bear-
. figures were $3 and $6 respectively, ing manufacturer's name selling at 10
Velvet, velveteen, plush and silk cents orless per carton, also candles
goods are now taxable at prices over selling at one cent each, are exempt
$2 per yard (10 per cent.). This tax front taxation. Chewing gum is re -
formerly applied to such articles at dueed from 10 to 3 per cent,
any price. The amended list of exemptions.
Ribbons, laces and braids, formerly from the sales tax is as follows:
taxable at any price, are now ,ssessed Animals, living; poultry; fresh,
on prices higher than 50e per yard salted, pickled, smoked or canned
for general goods, and collarettes at meats; canned poultry; soups of &l
$2, kinds; milk, cream, butter, cheese,
The tax on carpets and rugs is now buttermilk, condensed milk, condensed
confined to those costing more than coffee with milk, milk foods, milk
$6 per lineal yard of 27 inches wide. powder and similar products .of milk;
The word "cushions" was removed oleomargarine, margarine, bntterine or
from the li=t of taxable articles, any other substitute for batter; lard,.
Snowahees were removed from the lard compound and similar substances;.
list of taxable articles, cottelene; eggs; chicory, raw or green,
Baseball requisites and lacrosse kiln -dried, roasted or ground; coffee,
sticks are naw taxable over $'2 each, green, ` roasted or ground; tea,
where formerly they were taxable hops, rice, cleaned or uncleaned; rice
over 50e each. Sks in excess of $3, flour, sago flour,' tapoeaflour, rice
instead of taxed an the whole prise, meat; corn starch, potato starch, pa -
Articles platted in nickelwate or tato flour; vegetables, fruits, grain
fleas; for ltouselzol.l or office use are and seeds in their natural state; buck-
uow exempt, as are also band instru wheat, meal or flour; pot, pearl, rolled •
inerts, roasted oe ground barley; corn mea_
The foilnwing articles were taken corn flour, oatmeal or rolled oats; ryeiSiNN FEINERS
out of the 20 per cent, class and placed flour, wheat flour; sago and tapioca;
.
in toiletnvare, curtains in mos of hays and straw; nureewy stack,. vege-
ATTACK BARRACKS
ARRIVAL OF GAP i. FRVATT'
Capt. 1" ryatt's ship, Brussels. wh ic'h has been presented to the i3ritistt
Nation by the Dutch Government, arrived in the Tyne from Antwerp. Photo
shows, the S.S. I3r•ussels,. being towed up the Tyne by British and Belgian
tugs.
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in the 10 per cent class. Ebony goods macaroni an vermicelli; }',, cattle foods,
$7.50 value, gramotthones, gal and tables, canned, dried, desiccated or Ulster Volunteers Watched
eleettie wall brackets over $3 each, evaporated; honey; fish and products
and chandeliers over $12 (except for, thereof; sugar, molasses, maple, corn Two -Hour Fight With
•
Soil Fertility in Western
Canada.
"Our farmers are not all censer
vationists. , . The fertility prob-
lem on the prairies is a somewhat dif-
REVENUE STAMPS NEW METHOD
OF COLLECTING LUXURY TAX
Change Will be Relief' to Merchants Tbrougbout Country
as Wen as to Cu storms Department:
A despatch from Ottawa says:.. 33s
the collection of "luxury taxes" under
the present method is proving difficult,
cumbersome and costly, it has been
decided to abandon the whole pro-'
eedure in favor of collection by means
of revenue stamps. These revenue
stamps will be ready by July I, and!
as they are available for puchase byi
merchants the sending of duplicates'4
of every sales receipt covering goods'
which are taxable will cease. That',
will be a great relief to merchants!
throughout the country, and it will be t
a great relief as well to Mr, George!
W. Taylor, Assistant Deputy Minister'
of Customs and Inland Revenue, as he
twill not have to provide the iremen-I
dous staff which would otherwise have;
been necessary to deal with collections`
and accompanying vouchers.
The revenue stamps will be provid-1
ed in denominations of from 1 to 10;;
cents inclusive, 13 emits, 15 cents and
all multiples of 10 cents up to $1. in
addition there will be one, two, three,
four, five and ten dollar stamps. If..
a woman buys a sealskin coat on which
the tax is 320, the procedure will bei
fer the salesman to affix two. 310
stamps to the sales slip or invoice and
collect 320, from the purehaser, the
stamps acting as evidence that the.
tax has been paid; the stamps will all
have to be defaced, so that they could
not possibly be used again.
As the stamps would have a value
equal to that of bank notes or Domin-
ion bills for a similar amount, ;a great
deal of attention is being given to the
question of having the stamps so de-
faced that they cannot be "raised" or
used again. The use of ink may not
be considered sufficient, as traces of
ink can often be removed. Some kind
of punch has been considered for the
purpose of perforation, and experi-
ments have been made as well with
indelible pencils, to obtain marks
which cannot be removed without so
injuring the stamp that detection of
the fraud would be inevitable. What-
ever is used,ample precautions will
be taken to prevent a fraudulent use
of the stamps. The excise tax stamps
must in every case he affixed to the
sales slips or invoices at the time of
sale and cancelled.
Markets
VA to $11:50; do, coin„ $7 to $8;
e Illi ir1u stockers, $9,25 to $11; feeders, $11 to
$12,50; canners and cutters, $4 to VS;
milkers, good to choice, $100 to $165;
do, cont. and med., $65 to $75; spring -
ere, $90 te$16u; lambs, yearlings, $13
1 I Toronto, June 22 •-• Tan, wheat-- to $14; do, spring, $15 to $20; de,
lure hes). OriSntal rug: are in the and sugar cane syrups and all mita- Po - ice. ferent one from that of the older No, 1 Northern, $3.15; No. 2 North- spring, per lb. 18c to 20c• calves ood
15 per cent, cls. s, tions thereof; Ohre to be used only for A des despatch front Cookstown ire- g
Paalios under $150 and organa under binder twine; ice; newspapers and '
'$150 are now aired 5 per cent, quarterly, monthly sari semi-nxonthl land, .asday: hundred Sinn ceib -
} an Thursday attacked the police bar -
The following items were added to ittagazine, and weekly literary papers;
• .. asks here and drove rite oli
Wholesale Grain,
provinces. We have an abundantly ern, 33.12; No. 3 Northern, $3.08, to choice, $16}to $18.50;'sheep, l$6 to
fertile soil, but a scientist has recently Manitoba oat=. ---No. 2 C.W., $1.381,d; $10; hogs, fed and watered, 319.25 ;
estimated that, if we shipped away No. 3 Cts., $1.3811; extra No. 1 teed, do, weighed off cars, $19.50; do, f.o.b.,
only 100 million bush,le of wheat an -'$1•381; eNa. 1 feed, $l'3.744; ' No, 2, $13.25; do. do, country points, $18.
p ce tp tit: feed..ai3O e. 1tlontreal, June ?2.---1 —Butcher heifers,
sirt.e.ee taxable a. 10 per cent,: unbound; gold and silver in ingots,' upper ;tart of the building. ,They cap. madly from. Sasi.at:lie„^zn we would ;ylanitoba belie ••-.•No. " CCY
1'lanp• over 3430, organs over 3I30 blocks, bar:, drop sheets or plates un- v o i h. ship away fertility—nitrogen, phos-: ,* y, " , 51.99; cant., $8 to f11; butcher cows, fined„
tared two police constables, and tNo. 4 CVP„ 31.69; ;elected, 31.66; feel, 57 to $10,50; canners, $5 to $6; cut-
(except for religious lturpaae,sl, me manufactured; gold and silver sweep -,drew after two hours` fighting. phorus ani1 potash—with a market $1.66. 5
,� tots, $6 to 37; butcher nulls, coin„ $8
chxtracsil piano -players, talking ma- iirgs; Pr,iti li sant Canadian spin and Cookstown is a stun Tyrone L o. value of $23.550,000 not including All above in stare Fort William. to . 030 veal, 1 50•
:n pts., ,Goad 1, 51 to $l,a.,a
cli'rea tool records, gala}c iit►ve . AU foreign fold corn; materials for use ionist centre. Lister 'Volunteers were freight• We are not concerned about, Ontario wheat--F.o,b, Shipp g p , med,1 , 10 to 13, Lambs good, $18
jewelry over Q., to v due, h'ccldi;t laky in the constru�tion of shins; an-• ., :atiugin;; back, fertility*; but we are' according to fraight, No. 1 winter, S2: to 320. Ho .s 3 df -car weights: g
aroused ii the gunfire and mobilized. g , a selects,
Tinge yr ere exempted altogether from' thraeite and bituminous coal and coal; were ydeeply concerned about the conserve-
thetQ S Ol; ivo, ' inter, 31.9:1 to 32 01, y 320, aovv s, 516.
-jewelry tax. Gold -mounted Nun- dust; lignite, briquettes made from, but not laked to ass -et. They . ,,;; a winter, 31,9'2 to $1.93; ri 1
watched the siege of the birrra:l,s. Ot*,
holt of fertility.
twin pens da not now come under the' anthracite or bituminous eoal or lis;g In addressiir tie eighth annualk$j03 spring, 32.0w to $2.03; No. :spring, y.
r constable was severely wounded •1'F ' niceting of they Camntission of f`pn-i $1.03 to $2.01; No. 3 spring, )1 93 to Transmission of urs by
a0 per cent, tax an gold entries unless` site; coke, charcoal, peat, wood for fns}a]acies by the raiders from the , $...01.
: i bide; >, manufactured from coal, I)ttr. •Raison olive :afar interce atc 1 the University of •Saskatchewan, gavet:vo. 3 yellow, track, Toronto , 2A0�
aid!' 10 per cent, in a ;,ins• of 32 per, calcium carbide or oil for illuminating g . p i 3 The game guardians of the various
a orator lorry in which there was a expression to the above op.nton. i nonunal,
to
man s frerin from dangerous gun -
soli
problem of the conservation of Ont, oats --Ivo, ,3 white, nominal. trol
the dices, in their endeavor t aco col-
, wounds. It was ascertained that
soil fertility, together with other agri- Barley—ill siting, $1.87 to $1.89. the illegal taking of furs and to co]-
1 1' b, d Here- s cultural problems of vital importance Bucka-hea.t- No. 2, nominal^ lest reliable statistics ofefur produe-
he receive; theist during the dose Ontario flour—Winter, in jute bas tion, have been handicapped in the
follows: 15 cents a pack on cards sold of; donations of clothing and booke The of-ce ,assert thrt two otltct tea Western Canada, will be the sub- g
nt 324 or leas per grows 25ep prompt shipmentvere Government stand- past because parcels containing furs
packs, be- for charitable purposes; settler+ ef- ;alders were shot sects under discussion at the import ard' $13,25, delivered at Montreal
• ant conference which will be held at , have been accepted for transmission
they eost more than $a fuel purposes; electricity; calcium car p•round floors into rho police above, ttrvat en. Dr. W. J. Rutherford, of American corn ---Prompt shipment
Silk and silk fabrics :we now tax
- h' 1 •a f •t 1 f • t � •
Mail.
yard. formerly tins tax applied on,i or heating purposes;: ships licensed
any price, I engage in the Canadian coasting
Planing cord.: are now taxahie es title]e,• ern'eia nit ars pzuta t
tweet: 52.1 and $iii per ;;rocs packs, feets; articles enumerated. in schedule nominal.
-t► by mail without a permit lacing re
stick uric over 330. Formerly paying G of the West India Agrecnte:it, or to ;Manitoba flour—Government stand-
selling
The 1920 edition of the Can -
cards were taxed 25 cents a pact; when articles purchased for use of the Do -a ard, $14.86, Toronto. adieu Postal Guide (No. 200), contains
selling at $25 per gross packs or les minion Government or f the i G G Peas—No. 2, 33.00.
Winnipeg, on July 14,15, 16 in con-
nection with the semi-annual meeting
ofthe Commission of Conservation.
The Commission is arranging a thor-
I,ancl of my birth, all my heart you °u lily helpful program which will be
hold,
Ne'er for the wrong did your flag
unfold -
Justice for all in your heart of gold.
Land of the Maple, I love thee.
Tyrants nay knak at thy portals'
door;
Heroes, the sons whom thy dear soil
' bore,
Shall hurl every foe from thy sacred
shore.
Beloved, my Country, oh, fear not..
end A,, , lees, 7 any o to c c -
c a pack over 336 per gross. partments thereof, or for the Senate
Proprietary medicines . containing or the House of 'Commons.
LIVING COSTS
CONTINUE TO SOAR
Coal and Rent Higher as Well
as Most Food Staples.
A despatch from Ottawa says: ---The
Labor Gazette reports that in prices
the general movement continued up-
ward, increases in grain, fodder, live
stoelc, fuel, building materials, and
furnishings, slightly -more than offset-
ting decreases in eggs, milk, hides,'
textiles, and in raw furs. There were
decreases in some metals and in metal
products, but there were increases in
others. The Departmental index num-
ber of wholesale prices rose to 356.6
for May, as compared with 353.1 for
April, 281.1 in May, 1919, and 136.3 in
May. 1914. In retail prices the aver-
age cost of a family budget of staple
foods in GO cities was higher, rising to
316.65 at the middle of May, as earn -
pared with 315.99 at the middle of
April, and $7.42 in May, 1914. The
chief increase was in potatoes, which
averaged 36.15 per bag, as compared
with $4,78 in April. Sugar also ad-
vanced substantially, averaging . 21.7
cents per pound for granulated, as
compared with 19.5 cents in April.
There were slight increases in some
meats, and in several of the other
lines, with decreases in eggs and milk.
Coal and coal oil were also upward,
and rent averaged considerably higher.
1`10 British Bounty
On Canadian Wheat
A despatch from London says:—In
the House of Commons on Friday the
Premier, replying to d question, said
he could not adopt the suggestion of
a bounty on Canadian; wheat to meet
the shortage ins the crops.
RUSSIAN JEWELS
REACH BUCKINGHAM
Despatched by Late Czar to
King George at War's
• Outbreak,
A despatch from London says:—A
packet containing the last of the
murdered Czarina's jewels, valued at
more than $500,0000, despatched per-
sonally by the late Czar Nicholas on
the outbreak of the first Russian revo-
lution, in April, 1917, to living George
for safe-keepin •, arrived at Bucking-
ham Palace this afternoon, having
been held up in transit for more than.
three yenrs.
The. packet Ras part of the contents
of two mail bags made up for delivery
in London and hidden in Petrograd
until only lately the Russian author-
ities ,only
them. The jewels are
mostly- diamonds and pearls.
Upper Canada College
Scholarship.
The Gordon Southam Memorial
Scholarship, No. 1. at Upper Canada
College, has been awarded to Hugh
Br€inion of Dunnville. This scholar-
ship, which is tea the value of• 3500 a
year for •three years, is obtainable
only by a boy whose previous educa
tion has been carred on in the public
or high schools of. the Dominion. Hugh
Branton, .though only fourteen, is al-
ready ii
l-ready'in the Third Forni of the Dune_
ville High School, Another similar
scholarship will e offered • by the col
lege in April, 1921,
Canada had, on Nov. 30, 1919, 3,733
rural mail delivery routes,, serving
186,367 rural mail boxes. •
Canada
God keep thee safe in His care alway,
Guard and direct thee by night and
by day
While we, thy children who love thee,
Pray,
"Land of the •Maple, Goa bless
thee."
Senator Harding of Ohio, Republi
.can Nominee for United States Presi-
dency.
Millfeed—Carlots, delivered, Mont- a regulation to the effect
tbat furs
real freights, bags included. Bran, skins, plumage, etc., will not be, ac -
of particular interest to all leaders in per ton, $o4; shorts, per ton, $61; cepted, even during the open season,
dfeed fl 3
goo our, $ 75 to $4.00. unless the pack
agricultural betterment and to all who Rye—No. nominal;No. 3,ages are plainly mark-
are engaged in practical 'farming, to $2.25, 32.20 ed to show the actual nature of the
Many leading authorities en soils and Hay -Baled, No. 1; per ton, 330• contents and the name and address of
crone will contribute papers or• ad- nixed, 325; straw, carlots, per tonthe sender.1 alsDuring the close season,
, it will also be nectmsary for the sender
Creases. The following subjects will $16 to 317, track, Toronto. to secure from the game warden a
he included in the program, with a full Country Produce—Wholesale. to
covering th-e shipment. The
discussion of related questions: Eggs --Selects, 55c• No. 1, 52 to 53c. Deputy Postmaste,-General has di -
(1) The rate and extent of exhaus- Butter—Creamery prints, 57 to 59c, rested the attention of each post -
tion of soil fertility on western farms; do, solids, 57 to 58e; choice- dairy master to these requirements.
(2) Conservation of soli moisture prints, 49 to $51c; ordinary dairy Althought the strict enforcement of
and its relation to the physical condi- paints, 45 to 47c; bakers', 35 to 40c;
tion of the soil and to crop production; oleomargarine, best grade, 31 to '37cthis regulation should minimize ille-
Cheese—New, large, 32? t5 33c; gal traffic, the regulation itself is not
(3) 117ainten m e of organic matter twins, 33 to 33tic; old, large, 331t, to entirely satisfactory to the Provincial
or fibre in the soil with a discussion 34e; twins, 34 to 3t' c, Stilton, old, authorities, In Nova Scotia for .in -
35e. Maple syrup -1 gal. tin, $3.40; stance, the law requires that no pack-,
5 -gal. tin, per gal., 33.25; maple sugar, age should be shipped unless accom
lb., 30 to 31c, panied by a proper tag, whether dur-
Provisions—Wholesale, ing the close season or not.
Smoked meats—Hams, med., 43 to At the recent Fur Industry and Wilct
45c; heavy, 36 to 38c; cooked, 61 to Life Conference held in Montreal it
64c, rolls, 32 to 33c, cottage rolls, 36 was shown how exceedingly difficult
to 37c; plain,
51lefast bacon, 4;a to 50e; it is to obtain reliable statistics of
legumes for the purpose of supplying backs, plain, to 53c, boneless, 56 to- ,
forage for live stock and humus for 60e. Bused meats—Long clear bacon, Canada s fur production. The stag-
e soil. a 31 to 32c; clear bellies, 29 to a"Oce Lard gestion was made that the Post Office
The whose matter of the conserve- —Pure, tierces, 28 to 281, c; tubs, 28% Department should makeea return of
to 29c; pails, 2831 to 29 tie; prints, allfurs accepted for transmission. If
tion of soil fertility and the proven- 29'M to 30c. Compound, tierces, 26',e this were done, great assistance would.
tion of soil drifting is timely and im- to 27c, tubs, 27 to 27%c; pails, 27t✓e be rendered in 'preparing the data on.
portant. It is felt that a gathering to 27ettc, prints, 28 to 28%c. which to frame improvements in the
of this kind, to present the best and Montreal Markets. laws relating to the taking• and selling
most authoritative facts regarding Montreal, June 22.—Oats, Canadian of fur bearing animals•
these problems, will be productive of
great good. Farmers and all others
interested in agriculture are cordially
invited to be present.
on the importance of soil fibre;
(4) Rotation suitable for drought
areas of the Prairie Provinces;
(5) Soil and crop management;
(6) Other phases of agricultural
problems of the West, such as the pre-
vention of soil drifting, suppression
of weeds and the uses of grasses and
McAdoo is rat
of Presidential Field
A despatch from San ,Francisco,
Cal., says William G. McAdoo sent
a message .on Thursday to the Western
delegates to the national Democratic
convention. instructing them not to
vote for hila under any circumstances,
as he had fully made up his, mind not
to accept the nomination for : the
Presidency. - -
til
western, No. 2, $1.48 to•$1.49; do, No.
3, 31.47 to 31.48. Flour, new standard,
314.85 to $15.05. Rolled oats, bag, 90
lbs. 35.50 to 35.60. Bran, 354.25.
Shorts, 361.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton,
carlots, 328. Cheese, finest easterns,
28c. Butter, choicest creamery, 53 to
54c. ` Bggs, fresh, 54c. Potatoes, per
bag, car lots, -$6 to 36.25. -
Live Steck Markets:
Toronto, June 22. -Choice heavy
steers, 315.50 to 316; good heavy
steers, $14.75 to 315; butchers' cattle,
choice, 314.50 to 315; do, good, 313.75
to 314; do, med., 312.50 to 313; do,
come, $11.75 to $12; bulls, choice,
$12.50 to $13; do, good, 310.50 to
$11,25; do, rough, $7.50 to 38; butcher
cows, choice, 312 to 312.50; do, good,
Canada's farms numbered, 1919,
667,951, viz., Ontario, 184,337; Quebec, .
143,958; Saskatchewan, '103,912; Al-
berta, 67,603; Nova Scotia, 53,634;
Manitoba, 49,855; New Brunswick, 37,-
204;
7,204; British Columbia, '1_8,743; Prince
Edward Island, 13,705.
Canada's grain growing centre has
shifted from east to west in 50 years.
In 1870, 85 per cent. of wheat, oats
and barley was grown in' Ontario, 12
in Quebec, 21,a, in East. In 1917
Saskatchewan alone grew56 per cent.
of all Canada, Alberta. 2, Ontario 5.
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