AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1923, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN.

\ t'.-TRAi. iAN AND X./. CAttLE ASSOCIATION WIRELESS PIP tI’OSAL. SYDNEY. Feb -0 Amalgamated wirele-- have invited : tenders for a complete high power tin- | plox station, designed lor direct com- I mereial communication with England twenty-four daily. MEAT FREIGHTS. SYDNEY. Fell 20. Mr d. B. ('rainsie (Chairman of the Australian Meat Council] complains that while freights for other cargoes an' reduced, for conference lines meat freights are not reduced. lie tools Australia's export meat trade "ill suffer as a eouscf|Ueuce. and that \I * gen tine will gain markets which will not he regained. THE COMPOSITE POLICY. SYDNEY. Feh 20. The "Herald" states the main points of the policy agreed upon Iwtween Mr IP-nee and Mr Earl Page are the surrender by the Commonwealth to the States of all direct taxation, the abolition of the present per capita payment of 2os by the Commoiiwealth t > the States, and instead tiie States to pay the Commonwealth a pel- capita payment of HOs: the elimination of the duplication in administration between the Commonwealth and States; the reorganisation of tlu- T’ost Office, with, if possible, a reduction of charges; reduction of custom duties on ag’-icul-toral and farming implements ami requirements ot a convention to give effect lo the new state movement; the reorganisation of the Commonwealth Dana and establishment of a system of rural credits. FEDERAL POLITICS. SYDNEY. Eel. 20. Mr Pence (premier) speaking at Ike Millions Club said he believed the composite Government now formed vtould provide a stable Government which would insure a reasonable jr.-r----ed of freedom from political turmoil and unrest. He intimated that at. the earliest opport unity. Government would remove all legislative restrictions imposed on trade and commerce liming Hie war. He appealed to all I'-1'1i,.-. to let the dead past bury its • and to work w ith wholehearted unity in solving the ,! iflicult pri'lih-ms of Hip day. DANK HOP,IDLY EDI I.El). SYDNEY. Eeli. 20. A daring attempt was made to roll ill- 5f 11 fist i hi*’ Park branch of the Government Savings flank at midday tndav. when the manager was alone behind the counter. \ man ran in. pimp-<-i| over the counter and seized him In- th'- throat. The manager luught the intruder oil. and called fur the assistance of his wife, who came to Illhelp. The assailant decamped. X.S.AY. RAILWAY Eli A CDS. SYDNEY. Fch. 20. The three men. McLeod. Gunner and Trim, iirrested on Feb. lo on a charge of defrauding the N.S.W. railways by drawing j.ay lor more men titan worked under thivni (through entering fictitious- it nines on the jt-ay sheet) have nil been committed for trial. Giving evident o for the prosecution, a railway enquiry officer slated the total .shot tage- amounted to over thirteen thousand. NEWCASTLE MINERS. SYDNEY. Feh. 20. At iin aggregate meeting ot the New castle Miners' Lodges it was resolved that every effort he made to establish a weekly wages system, such being Inc onlv |>ermnnent solution ot the inteii,iitienoy of work in the coal mining indust rv.