AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3568, 2 September 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

THE PRICE OF BETTER. PREMIER STOREY’S THREAT. Received 12.40 a.m. SYDNEY- This Day. Premier Storey, criticising the decision of tli£ commodities commission in increasing the local price of butter in sympathy with the overseas increase, (threatened to abolish the commission, which was a creation of the previous Government. The. Attorney-General, Mr. McTieruan, subsequently introduced a Bill in the Assembly to prevent un(|ue p,ro-dit-making, and repealing the Commodities Control Act. MATERNITY BONUSES. SUBSIDIES AGREED TO. Received 10.40 a.m. SYDNEY, Thip Day. Cabinet has agreed to the proposal by Mr. McGirr that the mot herhood subsidy shall be six shillings per week for each child provided the father’s income, with the subsidy, does not exceed £3OO per year. AUSTRALIAN NAVY. TEMPORARY REDUCTION PROPOSED. Received 10.-ilfPa.m. MELBOURNE, This Day. ft is understood that the Federal Government is considering proposals for a temporary reduction of the Australian Navy owing fo the excessive cost of maintaining vessels which are now obsolete. WOOL COMMITTEE’S REPORT. TWO YEARS’ OPERATIONS. Received 10.40 a.m. MELBOURNE. This Day. The Central Wool Committee’s report shows that operations for two years involved transactions, totalling £174,000.000. and that n dividend of £5 000 000 wil! b rt paid on September 22nd.

SHIPPING. Received" 10.40 a.m. MELBOURNE This Day. Arrived —Kararnea, from New Zealand, FEDERAL CAPITAL SITE. CANBERRA NOT FAVOURED, Received 10.40 a.m. MELBOURNE This Day. t A deputation of Anti-Canberra Parliamentarians waited on Mr. Hughes and pleaded delay in ihe erection of the Federal Capita'! for financial, reasons. M'"- Hughes, in - a non-committal reply said that the question would be an open one with the Party. SPORTING CONFERENCE. THE STATUS OF AMATEURS. Received 10.40 a.m. SYDNEY, .This Day. It is understood i hat the committee appointed at the recent conference of sporting bodies to consider the amateur status question, has completed a report recommending tliai all sports, professional and amateur should be controlled by the Amateur Federation in future, but opportunity should be provided for every individual professional to receive absolution if desired. The report will shod ly be submitted to a further conference of sporting bodies. „ THE JAPANESE MENACE. PACIFIC ISLANDS OCCUPIED. Received 11.50 a.m. SYDNEY This dav. y The Rev. Arnold, a missioner from the Gilbert Islands, states that the Marshall Islands are being rapidly transformed Into a new Japan. Japanese is being taught in the schools, and the people are dressing in Japanese costume. The whole place is run on Japanese lines, and the trade of the group is now almost wholly with Japan. He had been informed that an American lady Mission teacher in the schools had been told that unless she learned the Japanese language within a year so as to he able to teach it to the children, she must make room for another. ELECTIONS QAULIFICATIONS COMMITTEE. SYDNEY, SepL 1. The Elections Qualification- Committee* which is sitting dealing with a petition lodged by five electors of Balmain against the return of the ''five members for that constituency, one of whom is Premier Storey, alleged that the grounds of appeal concern the admission of papers from absentee The sitting was adjourn- 1 ed for a week. ALLEGED LIBEL. SYDNEY, Sept. 1. An action has been commenced wherein Mr Holman, ex-Premier, claims £SOOO damages from Phillip Walter Tarbuton for alleged libel contained in the newspaper “Tweed i Daily/’

PARER AND McINTOSH. MELBOURNE. Sept' L The Federal Ministry has presented Parer and Mclntosh with cheques for £SOO each. N.Z. POTATOES FOR AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, Sept. 1. Mr Buxton, by request of merchants and brokers’ represeutaives of the Sydney produce trade, and the Chamber of Commerce detailed his efforts to induce the Federal authorities to remove the embargo on the importation of New Zealand potatoes. He stated that he had been successful to the point that an officer of the Department was being despatched to New Zealand tq report upon the conditions there. He stated that the New Zealand crop was the largest on record, the quality being equal to- anything inspected in Australia. It was recommended Buxton that shipments! be restricted to South. Island ports to ensure thorough inspection, and as a guard against excessive export.