DECIMAL COINAGE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 11.9 p.m., June 19.
Melbourne June 19,
Despite the opposition of the Government, who sought to make the adoption of the decimal system dependent on adoption by Britain, the House, by 21 to 18, adopted the Decimal Coinage Committee’s report. Subsequently Sir E. Barton submitted a series of resolutions urging the adoption of the metric system with least possible delay within the Empire, that the most convenient method of obtaining it would be for the Imperial G
■overnment enacting compulsory use within Britain and for all other parts of the Empire whose legislatures approve of it. The resolutions were oirried.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 921, 20 June 1903, Page 2
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