AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

. WAR GRATUITIES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrignt. Received March 19, 10.3J p.m. ' Melbourne, March 29. Mr. Hughes, moving the second reading of the War Gratuities Bill, providing a payment of Is fid a day for all ranks tip to .June 28, 1919, in bonds bearing interest, at SVI per cent., said that compared with New Zealand and the other Dominions, this was' the most liberal scheme in the Empire. EXPORT OP PRODUCE. Received March 19, 10.35 pm. Sydney, March 19. The Chambers of Commerce Conference adopted a resolution urging the removal of all war-time prohibitions on the export of produce. OPPOSITION TO PRINCE'S VISIT. Melbourne, March 19. The Trades Hall" Council decided to hold aloof from functions connected with the Prince of Wales' visit and request unionists to refuse to permit their children to participate in the welcome. DECIMAL COINAGE FAVORED. Sydney, March 19. The Chambers of Commerce Conference urged the Federal Government to request the Imperial Government to consider the matters of decimal coinage and tho metric system of weights and measures as urgent. It advocated the establishment of a British Empire trade mark and that the constitution be. amended by making Sydney the Federal capital. Mr. Braddon was elected president.