AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1920, Page 7

AUSTRALIA.

| GENERAL ITEMS. ! By Telegraph,—Pre3S A3sn.—Copyright. I Sydney, Sept. 3. I The Advertisers' Congress decided to appoint a vigilance committee in each State to report at regular intervals for the purpose of cleaning up all advertising of a doubtful character, the committee to work in conjunction with the police. Addresses were delivered on utilising advertising for increasing immigration, as an impulse to production, as a vehicle of distribution and as a factor of industrial organisation. The censure motion in the Assembly was defeated by 40 votes to 37. Mr. Storey has announced that he refused to gazette the increase in the price of butter to nullify the decision of the Commodities Commission, ,but later he found that the latter body had had the increase gazetted before Government instruction was given. The boilermakers and engineers are holding a stop-work meeting to consider the 44-hour proposal, having previously decided against the idle Saturday. Other unions also contemplate new ballots on the question. Melbourne, Sept. In the Hous.e of Representatives Mr. Groom's clause, providing for three judges in the Arbitration Court, excited trenchant, criticism by Labor and several members of the Government party, who suspected an indirect hit at Mr. justice Higgins. The clause was eventually carried by 24 votes to 17. Mr. Cook introduced a Bill transferring the note issue from the Treasury to the Commonwealth Bank and providing for 5s notes if necessary. The expenses of the Ewing inquiry at Darwin have been published. It discloses that the judge received £4630 for expenses. The Commonwealth has received from the Imperial authorities tin* full text of the proposed wireless chain linking up the Empire. It recommends valve stations in England, Cairo, Poona, Singapore, Hong Kong and Darwin or Perth. The capital cost is estimated to be £l,213,000.