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Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1920, Page 1

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(AUSTRALIAN cc N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] i.w.w. prisoners. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. Government lias risked Justice Ewing to accept a Royal Commission to inquire into the I.W.W. prisoners cases. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. . SYDNEY, April 23. The “Braeside,” a live-masted Imrquehtjne, of 2SOO tons, the largest wooden ship built in the C'vnnnonwealth, has been launched on the Parramatta river. The vessel was originally ordered by the federal Government, but was recently purchased by Burns, Philp and Co. It is unofficially stated that the State Government will Test the action of the Federal Government in imposing a stiff totalisator tax. The Sydney ‘University students have formed a club to play League football as amateurs. The Geelong branch of Returned Soldiers’ Association is starting a co-opera-tive wool manfadburing company, with a capital of £IOO,OOO.

ANT LLIQ UOR CAM PA 1G N. SYDNEY, April 23. In anticipation of a forthcoming poll on prohibition and the permanent six o’clock closing of hotels in New South Wales, the New South Wales Prohibitionist Alliance is organising a forty weeks’ campaign. The State has been divided into areas, to each of which an army of special speakers and preachers will devote a week. EMIGRATION RESTRICTION. (Received 1 this day at 8.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April 23. The Federal Senate has passed iho first reading of a- Passports Bill, which provides that no person over sixtoeen years of age shall he permitted to leave the Commonwealth without a passport properly vised and endorsed, under a penalty of £IOO line on six months’ gaol. The system does not apply to the crews of overseas vessels, or persons visiting, settling or returning to Now Zealand, provided they possess a permit issued by the proper authorities and travel on vessels trading solely between Australia, and New Zealand. The Bill also exempts aboriginals and natives of tlio East Indies and the Islands of the Indian and Pacific oceans. In the Senate on the second reading of the Immigration Bill Senator Gardiner denounced the Government’s proposal to insert a clause excluding “persons who advocate force to overthrow the Government.” Such a clause, he said, would exclude men like Cromwell and Washington.