FEDERAL FINANCE.
Xt.'S VOTE THEMSELVES £100. (Received u a.m.) CANBERRA, this day. A bill appropriating £3,220,000 for Mval construction, reserve of defence *od development of civil aviation, has Passed all stages. The House agreed • Wll authorising continuance of the ■•lanes of members of Parliament who candidates for re-election until the •Motion day. A minority pointed out Mat members will thus add £100 to their salaries. passed an appropriation of 00,000 for the purchase of radium. Sir, Neville Howse, Minister of Health, explained that the decision to make this purchase was due to the alarming in®**se in the prevalence of cancer. agreed to an appropriation ? «®»000 for search for mineral oils _ Mn d New Guinea. The Governy. anranged for the Anglo- - Oil Company to conduct a •JWJpcal survey for prospecting pur-
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 76, 30 March 1928, Page 7
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