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MANUFACTURE OF PAPER. Received Oct. 22, 11.30 p.m. Sydney, Oct. 22. At the annual conference of the country press the secretary stated that the Government was experimenting in the production of newspaper from Australian timbers. If satisfactory, it proposed subsidising the industry to the extent of a quarter of a million, and establishing mills to produce 30,000 tons of wood fibre annually. THE VOTING QUESTION. Received Oct. 22, 11,30 p.m. Sydney, Oct. 22. A stormy meeting of the National Party occurred when it was learned that the final result of preferential voting versus proportional representation resulted in a tie, twenty-five votes being cast each way, It was decided to remit the question to Cabinet, which later will submit it to the party. A proposition iot.% fresh bollst .was defeated,
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1918, Page 5
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131AUSTRALIAN NEWS Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1918, Page 5
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