PUBLIC SERVICE

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1920, Page 2

PUBLIC SERVICE

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, August 10. A Wellington association ot superannuated Public Servants was formed to-day to assist m a movement to secure superannuation allowances more in line than at present with the price levels. The speakers complained that while the cost of living had gone up on every hand, the superannuation cf the Public' Servants remained in the same position as before the war.

WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY IN DANGER. SECRET DIPLOMACY. (Australian and N.Z. Cubic Association.) Received this day at 9.15 a.m. SIDNEY, This Day. Tlio “Sun” newspaper, in an article on tne “ w hite Australia” policy, states tnat the question as to whetiier the principle ui the policy oi a White Australia” is in jeopardy must finally lie answered by tne end of the year at the conference in Geneva, when the Australian mandate in the Pacific is F l ’°' mitigated. The paper states that secret diplomacy still precludes the public from knowing-all that happens betwen the Chancelleris, but there is the very .best reason for stating 1 that japan very decidedly, upon several occasions, endeavoured to render the “White Australia” policy abortive, and that she will undoubtedly attempt t-> destroy it again at Geneva, where the policy may be cavassed in a far more detached, academic spirit. There will be a greater number of delegates with a greater number of votes, which may swing for or against Australia, and once a decision is reached Australia must either submit or break away from the League of Nations. ■" The “3un” states that unless'Ministers are able to. honestly affirm the integrity of the “White Australia” policy ’it will not be upset at Geneva. A delegation should be despatched to Geneva to the claims of the “White Australia” policy.