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AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AMENDING ACTS. By Telegiaph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Melbourne, July 24. A Bill lias boon 'introduced in the Federal Parliament to amend the Public Service Act. The main features are that the service will be placed under the control of a Board of Management with extended powers and the adjudication of disputes be, transferred from the Arbitration Court to a specially appointed arbitrator. Another Bill to amend the Quarantine Act |ives power to the Commonwealth in an emergency to supersede the State quarantine regulations. It extends the law to air navigation, increases restrictions on the landing of passengers, and extends the power of inoculation to include any prophylactic.

The Federal Government has prepared a Bill to provide for the representation of the Northern Territory in the Senate mid also for a board to regulate the prices of foodstuffs there.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

TECHNICAL EDUCATION, Sydney, July 24. The Australian Labor Party forward the following recommendation from the Trade Unions regarding apprentices to the State Governmant: Technical education should bo given in the daytime as part of the day's work, foes to be paid by employers, and free tram atid train passes to the technical schools to be provided. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. POSITION OF LOYALISTS., Sydney, July 24. Mr. M'Girr told a deputation asking for the replacement of a man whose placp had been filled by a loyalist during the 10 1 7 strike, that any loyalist who displaced a unionist, during the • strike should now be asked to stand down. The press protests against the breaking of a (solemn promise of the previous Government to stick to the loyalists.!— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

COAL MINES DISPUTE. Melbourne, July 24. The representatives of the coalminers are unable, to agree regarding the scope of the proposed tribunal. Mr. Hughes made other suggestions which are being submitted to the miners.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CHEESE POOL CONTINUED. Melbourne, July 24. The conference of clicese producers of New. South Wales decided in favor of the continuance of the cheese pool ior the ensuing season. —Aus. —N.Z. Cable Assn. REPATRIATION EXPENDITURE. Melbourne, July 24. The Federal Government last year pended £17,477.000 on repatriation operations, including £'11,230,000 on land settlement.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. QUEENSLAND FINANCE. London, July 23. At a meeting of the Australian Estates, Mr. Williamson, chairman, referring to Mr. Theodore's speech in which lie complained of the action of British financiers in refusing loans to Queensland, said that the Mother Country would willingly supply all the capital Queensland wanted for developing her resources, on the one condition that State contracts, whether with' tlie State creditors of with individual lessees, were sacredly observed. The credit of any State must suffer from legislation which failed to observe the elementary conditions of good faith. No one wished to interfere vtith the sovereign rights of Queetisland, or to see the development of this magnificent State retarded for lack of loan money, but if these sovereign rights were so exercised by tlie Queensland Government as to deprive any of the State creditors of rights on the faith in which they had been induced to invest money, the Government could not c6mplain if the result was to stop further capital going to Queensland.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1920, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1920, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1920, Page 2

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