CHILD ENDOWMENT BILL IN N.S.W.

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26127, 1 June 1950, Page 5

CHILD ENDOWMENT BILL IN N.S.W.

PASSAGE BY SENATE EXPECTED (Rec. 8 p.m.) SYDNEY. May 31. The New South Wales Government is now confident that the Child Endowment Bill in its original form will be passed by the Senate before the end of the session. Thus nrovides for 5s a week for the first child instead of 10s. as amended by the Labour major’ty in the Senate. The Minister of Social Services. Senator E. S. Snooner. announced that nreparations were complete for the payment of 5s a week as from June 20. The House of Representatives has already rejected a Senate amendment making child endowment a general social service not affecting the'determination of wages and salaries.

I Battle in Brooklyn Street.— Two iteen-age negro gangs staged a running gun battle in a Brooklyn street , to-day. Thousands of pedestrians returning from a Memorial Day parade I to honour the war dead scattered in panff as 16 youths opened fire on one another.- They us°d weanons mad° of piping known as “zin guns.” A policeman off duty. Wiliam Siegfried, and his three-year-old daughter found themselves in a crossfire of bullets. Siegfried, shielding the child with hi'; body, drew his revolver p.nd ordered the young gangsters to tb°ir *uns or he would shoot to k’ll. Fourteen ran away but tfi e two nearest him put up their hands. They were charged with illegal possession of weapons.— New York, May 30.