AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18135, 26 July 1924, Page 13

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

COMPULSORY VOTING. A FEDERAL MEASURE. (BT CIBI.B—PttHSS ASSOCIATION comistre.) (AOSTaAiJAH AKD ».a- CABWi MSOCtAHOB.) MELBOURNE, ~*Wy 23. The House of Representatives has passed the Bill providing for compulsory voting at Federal elections.

FEDERAL BUDGET. TAX REDUCTION PROBABLE, (mnsAUAs ure b.b. oasu aaaeeunos^ MELBOURNE, July 25. The Federal Budget will be delivered next Thursday. It i« anticipated that it will disclose considerable relief from income-tax burdens. Political prophets' anticipationa place the eaaement at £2,000,000. STATE FLOUR MILLS. A JLABOUR PLANK. Uottbaius ajto *.«. awwJi aaaoc«Mio*J MELBOUENE, July 25. Mr G. M. Prendergaat (Premier) in* ■ formed a deputation, asking that en* quiry be made into the recent increase in the price of bread, that one plank of the policy of the Ministry wa« to establish State flour mills. A board of enquiry would be aet np immediately to deal with the priea of bread. The Ministry waa not going to lei the price of bread go np without publicity being given to whatever justification existed. 'BUSES VERSUS TRAMS. CMrmAUWf u»n *.s. cabz,e uaocutwt.) PERTH, Jnly 25. The Government tramways showed a loss of during Juno, the first loss for a number of yeaw, It ia attributed to competition by recently inaugurated private nwtor-'bua service*. The 'Government intends to put limitation on competition by Hjuaes, which it proposes to run itself on certain routes.

WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED. UusmWA* **» CA » W asoocwtio*,) SYDNEY, July 25. Tho State Government has announced its intention of relieving the unemployment position by sending single men into tho country to clear and pmare roads on land intended for closer settlement. Married men will be found worlt within a reasonable distance of the city. PUBLIC SERVANTS AND I arbitration. i - | MELBOURNE, July 25. Tho Prendergast Ministry has fallen into lino with Labour Ministries in other States in respect to tho rogistrstion of State public servants in the Arbitration Court. Notice of discontinuance of the appeal against the registration of the Australian Public Servanta* Association has been given on behalf of the Ministry.