AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

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. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (Received this dav at 11.30 a,m.) SYDNEY, This Day,

Hotel accommodation for the Prince’s visit ig already exhausted. Tariffs have been increased one hundred per cent, A ease of pneumonic influenza has developed on tlie mine-sweeper, , Hon Mr McGirr’s family endowment scheme .will involve one hundred per cent increase in taxation. Tlie Labour Council has decided to resort to arbitration to secure a fortyfour hour week. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Speaker, on behalf of the House of Representatives, and President, on behalf of the Senate, at a gathering at Parliament House, presented the thanks of the Commonwealth to the Navy and Army, for. their services in the war. , Hon. Mr Hughes introduced a Bill increasing members’ salaries to £IOOO annually. Some opposition was manifested,

Mr Williams’ motion for the extension of the moratorium was negatived. Mr Ryrle, speaking in favour of Compulsory Military Training for boys, urged the necessity of Australians being ready for defence, as there might bb a menace not far away. He instanced that Germany was only waiting for the day of revenge, and would wait fifty or a hundred years. The Federal Government is considering a proposal that all enemy property in lands be liquidated, and the proceeds credited in payment of the reparation Germany owes the Commonwealth. SYDNEY, May 21. A committee has been formed to consider the establishment of a State Grand Opera Company, and erection of a State Opera House. The continuation is . announced or meat contracts between Australia and the Imperial Goverment. They provide for the sale to Britain of all the exportable surplus. The Senate passed the Oil --graenien Bill.