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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 16 March 1911, Page 5

"It seems to me New Zealand was wise to keep out of the Federation of Australia," said Dr. Word, editor of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph," when speaking to an Auckland "Herald" ropresentar tivo yesterday. "The Australian States," he said, "had federated for defence and other purposes only to find at the end o; ten years the Labour party advocating n <cheme o fimifieation by which the old States will lose all powers of self-govern-ment. Should the referendum bo carried under the scheme a Federal Arbitration Court, sitting, say, at Perth, 2500 rites from Sydney (twice tho distance between Auckland and Sydney) might decide the wages, hours, and other conditions of, say. the Railway Service of New South Wales. The only duty left to the Slate Parliaments would be to pass (he iu'Ci-s----s.iry amount to carry out. the Fockvjl Government's ideas." GOING HOME FOR THE CORONATION? Let J. J. Curtis and Co., Shipping, Forwarding, and Customhouse Agents, Customhouse Quay, move your furniture. They've had years of esperiene* in this kind of work, and will do it to four tatisfiction. Nα cfcreUii packing " f>r rough handling, Wodc:»t« charge^-,