COMMONWEALTH POWERS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10540, 24 January 1912, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH POWERS

COMPETITION BETWEEN i (Recieved Last .Nigjht, 9.35 o'clock.) MMLiBOUiRiNiE, January 23. The Premiers' Conference exhaustively discussed th^.,. proposals of Mr Holman for the vexing wider powers in the Commonwealth (Jovernment- The proposals in. a modified, form, a clause bjeing inserted the commonwealth Government the power to deal with unfair competition between the respective States.

STATE DIFFERENCES.

Received Thfs Morning, 12.25 o'clock ". MELBOURNE, January 23. -Tfce divisions on Mr Holman's proposals almost in variably saw the New South Wales and Westralian Premiers 1 (representing Labour) against Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania (representing the liberals). The tendency • rf the oomtferen^ewas to restrict the surrendering 'of the powers of the State Government to the State phases of industrial conflicts, and to der>v tli#> Oonpionwealt.h - the power to fix prices .in the Tariff protected induftripp, '" to make a Higli Or>nrt Ijjpr.t in form.?; of action, and in determining what are the monopolies over which the Commonwealth fibtould assume control.

The proposals in their amended form are not acceptable to New Souili Wales and Westralia. It is considered improbable that they will proceed further with them in their own Parliaments.