PRIME MINISTERS
CONFERENCE AT MELBOURNE POWERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH. (Received This Morning, 1.5 o'clock.) > , MELBOURNE, January 19. /'The-Premiers discussed Mr Holman's proposal vesting in. the Com.mon wealth wider powers. Mr Holman opposed the handing ' over of domestic commerce, but he favoured giving the Commonwealth power to deal protection, industrial arbitration, and the nationalisation or control of inter-State monopolies. If the States permitted international monopolies they should "stew in their own, gravy." The discussion w-as adjourned until ■ Mr Holman'6 draft Bill could be circulated.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10533, 20 January 1912, Page 5
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83PRIME MINISTERS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10533, 20 January 1912, Page 5
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