AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1918, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION-, Sydney, August 15. The>. Assembly received a petition praying for tiie introduction of proportional representation this session.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. DEFERRED INCREMENTS. Sydney, August 15. The State Goverment lias decided topay two years' deferred increments to civil servants ' salaries, . involving £3B,ooo—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asoe. PROSPECTIVE TAXATION. Melbourne, August 15. The. Federal Treasury, is drawing the meomo tax net round sweep winners. The Government has notified all recent winners of prizes from £5 to £SOOO de- ■ manding payment of 10 per cent. 'tax. The Department intends to- go through, all the lists of lucky winners back to July 1, 1015— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. TRENCH 1920 CLASS TO* REPORT.. August 15.. A notice has- been issued calling on, all Frenchi citizens in Australia of the.-. 1020 class to report.—Aus.:N.Z;. Cable- ; Assoc. UNION COERCION. I Sydney,: August. 15; Tho,lndustrial Arbitration Court gave aa important decision dealing with alleged union coercion. A member of a union appealed against the decision of tie Chief Industrial Magistrate ordering him to pay £5 9s 6d, tho balance of his . union subscription said to bo due. The grounds of the appeal were that ha was not a. member of the union, and was- . compelled to join under a threat that all , the other men would be- called; off. the. job unless he joined. Judge Curlcyis, in reversing the- , Magistrate's decision, said he expressed; . no opinion on the right and wrongs of ! military conscription, he simply said that . if it was slavery then industrial conscription was no better. —Aus.-N-Z.-. ~ Cablo Assoc. '.