COINAGE OF SILVER.
IK THE COMMONWEALTH. By Telegraph.— Vrcss Association.— Copyright. (Received February 26, 9.56 a.m.) MELBOURNE, i'his Day. Senator Best announced in the Senate that the Imperial Government had agreed to allow the Comomvealth to coin its own silver. At tho beginning of last, month a branch of the Royal Minfc was officially opened at Ottawa. It will bo remembered that -when Mr. Deakin, tho Federal Prime Minster, went to the Imparial Conference he took with him the following motion: — "That the profit of silver corned for the colonies be credited to tho colonies in respect to which it is gained." Sir Joseph Ward supported tho proposal of Australia for a mint in that country, and asked the Chancellor i of tho Exchequer io allow New Zealand to follow the same couise if she j thought it desirable. He did not think ! New Zealand was likely to undertake the establishment of a mint iv the immediate future, but ho wanted New I Zealand to be under the same conditions as Australia. Mr. Asquith agreed to the motion, and said ho was willing to | concede Australia and New Zealand indepondent action.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1908, Page 7
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