AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1922, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

TRADING WITH GERMANY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright. Sydney, June 14. The City Council rejected a motion that as a council it should not trade with Germany. CHEAPER NEWSPAPERS. Sydney, June 13. The Sun and the Evening News are reducing their price to one penny as from July 1. AN UNWELCOME VISITOR. Melbourne, June 14. The Rev. Mr. Ormuz, an Assyrian Church of England clergyman, who was refused permission to come ashore from the Ventura, will be allowed to land if a strict guarantee is given that he will leave Australia by the next vessel, probably the Malwa, next week. MINERS AND INCOME TAX. Sydney, June 14. The income tax is regarded as a bitter pill by the coal-in’ ?rs, many of whom are out of work owing to slackness of trade. Application has been made to the State Treasurer, on behalf of the Miners’ Federation, to exempt unemployed members from the tax. The application was refused. POLITICS AND RELIGION. Sydney, June 13. Speaking at the Lord Mayor’s reception to him, Dr. Lees, Archbishop of Melbourne, dealt with politics and religion. He said a city could not be great without religious influence, and by that he did not mean religious interference. He thought that church councils and other religious bodies were very often, in their attitude towards municipal affairs, a shade too peevish and a shade too suspicious. He concluded by saying that unless the Church was prepared to throw itself into the scheme of things in a self-sacrificing way that showed it did not merely exist to sing hymns on Sunday, and then wait for next Sunday to sing more hymns, then it was not much good. If it gave nothing better than that, then it was not worth having at all. THE POOL SYSTEM. Perth, June 14. The Labor Congress decided in favor of the pool system of marketing and handling of all industries, in order to dispense with the middleman, the pool to be controlled by a board in each industry and financed by the public credit. It also favored the establishment of a Labor daily paper in each capital city. COMPULSORY ARBITRATION. Sydney, June 13. Addressing the Social Christian Union, Sir Henry Braddon voiced the views of employers upon compulsory arbitration. He declared it had failed because it dehumanised the relations between employer and employee. Disputes were fmight in court in an ape and tiger spirit; the court table was a line of cleavage from which each side pushed the case .to extremes. The judge was placed in an entirely false position and he could not possibly become conversant with all the intricate details of every industry. There had been far more strikes since the advent of the compulsory method than before, and industry was struggling along under all sorts of conflicting awards. Mr. George Cann, a member of the Assembly, speaking on the Labor side, said he favored the retention of compulsory arbitration so that the contributions of the parties to production might be ascertained, and that they might find out how much of the price of goods was wages, and how much profit. He declared that if the perjury laws were in operation in the Arbitration Courts many witnesses on both sides might expect to be in gaol. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. Sydney, June 14. The Governor’s speech at the opening of the next session of Parliament on the 27th will include measures for financial help for families where parents are unable to properly maintain their children; the abolition of the profiteering court; the amendment of the Fair Rents Act; a new Act against trade combinations to fix prices; the repeal of the 44-bour week; the radical amendment of the Board of Trade Act, particularly in regard to rural industries; the amendment of the liquor laws; the treatment of maternity cases in country hospitals. ANGLICAN CHURCH’S POSITION. Brisbane, June 14, Dr. Sharp, Archbishop of Brisbane, in his inaugural address at the Anglican gynod, said it was anomalous that they should be bound by every enactment of the church I in England, when they had no representation m the assemblies. They had no voice m the revision of the Praver Book yet, if revised, it would be imposed on !• k / If , was a somewhat absurd position that they should be forced to accept every alteration made in England Referring to unity, the Archbishop said oidination was the crux. Until that was arranged on a satisfactory basis lesser considerations were comparatively trifling.. WESTPORT COAL TROUBLE. , Sydney, Juns 14. Mr. Hughes, replying to Mr. Baddeley, representative of the coal-miners who conv plained about the importation of Westport coal for the navy, explained that only Westport or Welsh coal was suitable for the purpose required. It was absurd to from 0 N h 7 ', he F® 3 ' 1 imported from New Zealand would have any affect castle UMmployment Position at NewTASMANIAN ELECTIONS; „ , „ Melbourne, June 14. I Dr. Earl Page, who has returned from lasmania claims that the Country Party prevented a debacle, owing to the many 'T m™- 3 ° f ‘ he Lee Mr. M Williams, ex-Country Partv lead- - B .tB tl ! e final f ‘B' ,res as 12 each fn H. 6 t l at ' onal and L abor parties and five tor the Country Party. LABOR CENSURE DEFEATED. __ , , „ Sydney, June 14. lhe Labor Conference defeated a censure motion on Mr. Cann for renewing th a leases of the Broken Hill mining companies while the men were said to be locked out. 'Hie committee’s report on the Minis- I tenal imbroglio is not yet ready. fi