AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
(Received 10.50 a.m.) BILLS PASSED. MELBOURNE, this day. The Nauru Island Agreement and tbe Entertainment Tax Amendment Bills were passed by the Federal Parliament yesterday. A bill providing for preferential voting for tbe Senate passed all its stages.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) ENDOWMENT OF CHILDREN. SYDNEY, this day. The Assembly read a second time the i Children's Endowment Bill by 4,' lto 31, | Mr. Holman statinjr that the Government would fall or stand by the bill.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) " I . | A CABINET SHUFFLE. MELBOURNE, this day. The reallotment of the State Oovernment portfolios is announced as follows: Mr. F. G. Clarke, Works; Mr- A. Robinson, Attorney-! ieneral; and Mr. 11. S. Lawson, Lands.—(A. and N.Z. Cable) PAPER-MAKING EXPERIMENTS. SYDNEY, this day. At the Country Press Conference. Mr. Holman stated that the C.overnment! intended to erect a plant immediately ; to experiment with the maunfacure of paper from local timbers.— (A. and N.Z.) I STATE FERRIES RECOMMENDED { SYDNEY. October 21. i Tbe report of the commission which inquired into the ferry charges unies that j the ferries should he placed under State control. It states that the fares charged in the past have been unreasonably high. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) PRESS CO-OPERATION. SYDNEY. October 21. The annunl conference of the Country Press has opened. A proposal has been ! submitted to enable country proprietors to join the metropolitan papers in the co-operative purchase of paper and print- . in? materials, thus effecting a great ; savins. —-(A. and N.Z. Cable.) ! _____
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 251, 22 October 1919, Page 9
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