AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8003, 14 December 1905, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

DIVEKS OPINIONS. SYDNEY, Dec. 13. "Ow iDaily TMegraph declares that the Anti-Trust Bill audaciously provides a.. hort cut to the . muslN extreme oppressive protection. MELBOURNE, Dec. 13. Sir William Lyne claims that the nuogurc is not nearly so drastic as the American K:|l, which is largely f011..*-cd in a uiodifi d form. Mr Wrtaon gvniually approves tin mtvsuii

Mr Cock, Deputy-Leader of the Opposition, says,tne Dill,is tho hottest dose the. Australian trader has yet had administered to him. It is not a proposal regulating competition, but preventing it. It nay ,seek to repress trusts,ibwt if it docsjitt will bo by repressing trade. It goes far beyond the dream of moderate protectionists. FULLER DETAILS. MELBOURNE, Dec. 13. Tho Anti-Trust Dill defines lower reiquneref ion as lojss pay an longer hours, or any terms or conditions of labour more disadvantageous to the workers.

Imported foods Include all parts or ingredients of food. Trade means) production of any kind.

Unfair competition includes if cctivpetition would probably, or does, result in greatly disorganising Australian industry, or throwing workers out of umploynrent; or if imported goods k hn\?> bben purchased abroad at prices greatly below their ordinary cost of production where produced, or market price where purchased, and if tbe goods are being- sold in Australia.at a price less than gives the importer or seller a 'air profit upon fair foreign ntarket value, or cost of production, together with all charges after shipment from whence exported] directly to Australia, or if importer or seller directly or indirectly gives agents or intermediaries disproportionately large remuneration for selling or recommending goods. Provision is made that, any person who monopolises, attempts, or com--bines to nwnopoKse any part of .trade amongst the several States, or with other countries, with a desire of ccntrolling, to the detriment of I the public, the supply or price ol any merchandise or , commodity, become liable to a penalty of £SOO, or 12 months' imprisonment. Anyone aiding or abetting a contravention of the Act i.s. held equally guilty nnd equally punishable with the contraveners. v The Board of Investigation is invested with' powers equivalent to those of a Koyal Commission.