AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.
United Press Association—Cop/right SYDNEY, July 18.
In the House of Representatives members strongly urged the impiortanee of providing refrigerated space in connection with the new mail contract. The Postmaster-General announced that the State Governments had been asked to co-operate in securing refrigerated space. Their replies are awaited. A Bill lias been introduced into the State Parliament to amend the Crimes Bill. It gives the police very stringe it- powers of dealing with suspects and in other measures. It is the outcome of the recent wave of crime.
MELBOURNE, July 18. The Capital Sits Bill has been introduced. It names Dalgety as the proposed site.
The Wireless Telegraphy Committee’s report recommends the establishment of nine stations, on the Australian coast and New Guinea for w ireless purposes, Sydney being placc.l first ip importance. The committee sees no necessity of establishing communication with New Zealand, since it would be used only in the remote contingency of the three existing cables being cut.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2136, 19 July 1907, Page 2
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