AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.
THE FEDERAL HOUSE. By Cakle—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, August 21. The House accepted the Senate's amendment to the Defence Bill rejecting the proposal making the pecuniary penalties of defaulting cadets recoverable in civil courts. Consideration of the Estimates has been resumed.
PUBLIC WORKS EXPEXDITURE. Sydney. August 21. In thp Assembly Mr. Parke? made, further charts against the administration of thp Works Department. Hp alleged that thp contractors lost £83.000 over the North Coast railway, yet Mr. Griffith relieved the contractors of their obligations and also returned their deposit of £20,000, thus saddling the country with a lo=s of over CSO.OOO. Mr. Griffith. in reply .said the contractors were claiming large sums above what thev received, and the, courts would decide whether they had received enough. Thp assumption that they had been overpaid was utterly unIrue. FIC.HTIXO THE LABOR PARTY. Sydnev. August 21. The Builder=' V-t-VlW'.; )ia~ divided to raise £IOO t<> lii-lj> tin- Liberals to tight the Labor Party. Strong succehes were made against the party's <•!;■..- = legi-la-tion and squandering money in <lav fabor.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 81, 22 August 1912, Page 5
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174AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 81, 22 August 1912, Page 5
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