AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3410, 14 February 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

A FEDERAL CONVENTION.

TO RECONSIDER CONSTITUTION.

Receiv‘ed'9.ss a.m_ MELBOURNE. This. Day.

' The Federal Cabinet decided to call ‘a convention to examine the Constiltution and recommend to the people |Whatever amendments they found de-six-able.

C-apt. J. K. Davis, of Shackleton’s Mawson’s expedition, has ‘been appointed Director of Navigation to administer the new. Act. ‘

At tennis. Lowe defeated Thomas 6——2, 6———3.' Lowe and eßamish defeated Taylor and Thomas 6—-4, 9—7; l-—-6, 10~——8.

VA RIOUS INTERESTING ITEMS.

-o Received 9.55.a.m.. SYDNEY, This Day.

The Labour Council decided that all Labour candidates for the forthcoming elections should pledge themselves to advocate the relezi;§’e”.of’ twelve LW. W. men. A conference of the British Medical Association, representing_ four States, resolutioned urging the Federal Government to create 8. Commonwealth Department of Health to extend the scheme for the control of Veneral disease. and subsidise St-ate expenditure on infant Welfare, and maternity hospitals.

Unions affected by the Marine Engineers’ strike are sending a deputation to Mr Hughes with the object of a.l-ranging a further conference between owners and strikers».

A suggestion from Melbourne Lhat: General Mon-ash should adjudicate on the strikers’ claims. has been well received by the men. Mr Holman is conducting his campaign, in his own electorate, übry aeroplane. Ross=»Smith3s flight from Bourke to Néfrromine occupied two and a half hours. . ~ ‘