AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 November 1929, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

(By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) N.S.W. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SYDNEY, November 27. The Legislative Council by 25 to 24 votes rejected the Legislative AssemAmendment to the Legislative Council’s reform Bill, which sought to remove from the Council the to veto or amend money bills. MOTORIST ACQUITTED. SYDNEY, November 26. At the Criminal Court, Percy Spittlehouse, 31, charged with manslaughter, was acquitted and discharged. The case arose from a motoi’ lorry accident on August 11, when two people were killed at Newtown. N.S.W. BUDGET PROPOSALS ' • SYDNEY, November 27 ; The draft of the budget was considered by the State Cabinet. Treasurer Stevens hopes to forecast a reduction in taxation on incomes from- personal exertion, and the repeal of the supertax on the profit of companies. Another proposal is the reduction in salaries of Members of Parliament. COAL CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, November 26. The Coal Conference, which met at Sydney to-day, has not yet solved the deadlock, and adjourned till to-mor-row afternoon. The position is reported to be hopeful. The State Government will not now attempt to open the Rothbury Colliery until the New Year. It will be opened then if the present dispute is still in existence. . U.S.A. TOURISTS, I SYDNEY, November 26. The Malolo’s American passengers are having a fine time. The Americans are visiting the various beauty spots, including the Blue Mountains and the Jenolan Caves, and are making coastal motor tours. One group of the tourists visited Canberra, today, where they were welcomed by the Prime Minister, Mr J. H. Scullin, as “cousins.” The leader of the American party, Mr Lynch, said that the Australian welcome extended was so wonderful that it had convinced him that they were- “brothers.” Some of the tourists are in ecstacies over the scenery that they have already seen in Australia. Mr J. W. Clarke, of the Tourist Department in Auckland, has arrived in Sydney in order to educate the American, tourists on the beauties of New Zealand. He will show “movies” of N.Z. on the voyage of the Malolo to Auckland, where the visitors will remain ' for three and a*half days.