AUSTRALIA.
'PRICE OF GAS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—CopjticM. Sydney, Oct. ?P. The Necessary Commodities Commission granted Australian Gaslight Company's application to inerea/e I lie price of gas for streejt lighting f'om £3 Ins to £<! His per lamp. Proportionate increases were granted to other companies. According to the evidence the' -.-impies have been supplying street lighting at a heavy loss and desired to increase it to cover the actual cost of the increased prices of materials and production and thus be enabled to reduce the price to private consumers. • QUARANTINE BILL. Melbourne, Oct. 98. In the House of Representatives the Quarantine Bill was recommitted and amended to empower the Minister to waive the quarantine charges, if warranted, in the case of vessels trading with coal to New Zealand and the Islands.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1920, Page 3
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