SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
Adbuide, July 20.
In the Assembly, Mr Granger movod the second reading of the Public Houses Monopoly Prevention Bill, which enables publicans to buy beernndspiritswheretheyplease. It does not prohibit brewers and spirit merchants owning houses or lending on bills of sale, but provides for a modification of the Gothenburg System, enabling the Government or local authority, or a company, under rules approved by the Treasurer, to purchase hotels at valuation. Tho Premier, on behalf of the Government, agreed to support the Bill so far as the abolition of monopoly wai concerned. The debate has bfen adjonrned, Mr Granger expeenft' majority of twenty or thirty on tn» second reading, but believes tht Gothenburg clause will be erased in Committee.
I The Government has commissioned Air Parsons to go to Chin* and Japan, and report on the condition of trade, commerce, currenoy, the woollen trade, and the possibility of extending commercial relations between those countries and Adelaide. He leaves next month, taking several trial shipments of goods with him.
A meeting of commercial men decided to wait on the Government to express their disapproval of the States Advances Bill.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5082, 20 July 1895, Page 2
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189SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5082, 20 July 1895, Page 2
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