AUSTRALIAN NEWS
COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS. CUTTING FREIGHT RATES. ! (Per Press Association, Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Commonwealth line has caused concern in Conference shipping circles by announcing its intention to utilise its idle ships by entering the American trade. Cargoes of wool will b« carried at one-farthing a pound cheaper than by the Conference line. FEDERAL POLITICS. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Nationalist Party decided 1 by a vote of 34 to 4 that the Country Party's condition for a composite Ministry, including that Mr ' Hughes be jettisoned, was unreasonable. It anticipated Mr Hughes will now meet the House and the Country Party will vote against him with Labour on a censure motion, as Dr. Earie Page has declared that the* Country Party fe determined l not to "support the Nationalist Government with Mr Hughes at its head.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9787, 1 February 1923, Page 5
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