AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

I AUSTRALIAN CO N.Z. CAJtL£ ASSOCIATION] THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. (Received This Day at e a.m.; MELBOURNE, May 21. In the House of Representatives Mr Poynton in presenting Judge Ewing’s report on the administration of . the Northern Territory, said that on the evidence it would be undesirable to continue to employ the persons who had been forced to leave' the Territory, or those whom the report adversely criticised. . \

AUSTRALIA’S MANDATE. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) - MELBOURNE, May 21

The report of the Royal Commission on the administration of the former German territories in the Pacific Islands recommends if the control be transferred to the Commonwealth, they should he administered as part of Papua, or' if this be disapproved, the territories should be kept separate-from Papua for piirposes of legislation and internal administration, but that one officer should administer both Governments.

ENDOWMENT OF FAMILIES.

SYDNEY, May 21

Tlie Minister of Health and Motherhood, Mr McGirr, will introduce a Bib to' endow all 'children over two in each family 7s 6d a week. It is alleged the scheme will involve 100 per cent, increase in taxation. .

M.P’S PAY RAISED. , MELBOURNE, .May 21Both Federal House have passed the Bill increasing the members’ salaries.

N.S.W. WAR GRATUITIES.

SYDNEY, May 20.

It is estimated that 200,000 people in New South Wales alone will participate in the soldiers’ war gratuity bonds, involving a payment of £lO, 000,000.