AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3596, 7 October 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PASSENGERS FOR MARAMA. - Received 8.55 a.m. f.-V ' • : r ' • i ;V . -.SYDNEY, This Day. ...,, r ' -The ; Maheno, )V . : ..t.o-day lakes forty passengers, who. will Join the.Alarama at Wellington. They are compelled to make the passage via Auckland owing to the cutting out of the Moana. NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL. .. . , . ' MELBOURNE, This Day.' Lord Forster has been sworn in as Governor-General, and had a fine, re- , ception. . ... 1 : AMUSEMENTS TAX' ( 1 MELBOURNE This ' . “ The Senate defeated a BiT fixing the entertainment tax at 3/. Mr Hughes declined to make any comment. TENNIS;' ' 1 SYDNEY, This Day. The following tennis team- has been selected to represent New South Wales in New Zealand in December: — M. Marsh (captain’) N. Reach, S. Hen- f derson, F. Reach, A. Watt, and J. Utz. THE WHEAT BILL. Received 10.10 a.m. I SYDNEY, This Day. In the Assembly, the Wheat Bill passed its 'third reading after a stubborn fight by the Progressives to sc- ! cure world’s parity. The Government i members emphatically- opposed parity and its consequent increase of the \ price of bread. i Mr. Storey has been approached by ! the South Australian Premier, seekj ing an urgent Premiers’ Conference to j deal with the world’s Parity diffi--1 cul'ty.