AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 1956, 22 May 1920, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

WAR GRATUITY. By Cable. — Preat Astorir.tion. — Copvrii/M. _. SYDNEY, May 21. iPis estimated that 200,000 people in New South Wales alone will participate in the soldiers' war gratuity honds, involving the payment of £10,000,000. PAY OF POLITICIANS. MELBOURNE, May 21. Both Houses passed the Members' Increased Salaries Bill. • BREAD SHORTAGE FEARED. (Hrc. May 22, 11.5) SYDNEY, May 22. A bread shortage is anticipated. Millers' stocks of wheat will he exhausted next week, and country slocks in the following week. The withholding of the Imperial wheat supplies is suggested! premiers' Conference. (l\cc. May 22, 11.5) MELBOURNE, May 22. The Premiers' Conference has opened. . It was decided that legislation should be introduced providing for the uniform marking of Australianmade goods. The conference adopted a proposal under which a member of a State parliament could stand for the Federal Parliament without his seat becoming vacant, and, if he were not elected, he could automatically return to the State parliament.