AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1921, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

INFANT WELFARE SCHOOL. By Telegraph.—Prosr. Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, August. 20. The Plunket system of infant hygiene, breast-feeding and motheroraft has been ! introduced into Australia by the os- • ta-blishmont of an infant welfare sc/hool :at Petersham, on similar linos to (he i Kariiane-Harris Hospital in Dunedin. SAVED BY A VOTE. Brisbane, August 20. ; In the Assembly the Government so- ' cured a majority of one on the one ■ Bill interposed, during the censure moItion. This io accepted a< an indication •of lhe pending censure division.’ i CHEAP CHINESE COAL. —«■ Sydney, August 20. i Mr. A. N. Bishop, who has returned from China, states thqi coal is obtain • able at Hongkong at l().s per ton. A company formed in China with British j capital has acquired some of the larg- ; est coalfields in the world and in 1924 i it will bo able to land bunker coal at jNewcastle at .€3 per ton. ( ' TAXIN</SHIPS' EABNTX(?,S. Melbourne, August 20. ! Mr. Collins, secret ary to the Treaj spry, referring to the cablegram reigai'dii.g Ihe taxing of -.hips’ earning? explaaietl that, it was. the practice in j 1 he Commonwealth to impose income- , rax on earnings of vessels owned by ' British or foreign Governments, but shipowners were liable for taxation on ; the amount collected for the carriage of passengers, live stock, mails and goods ■ shipped to Australia, the tax being j assessed on 10 per cent, of the amount j received by the owners.