Second Edition. AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1910, Page 3

Second Edition. AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

A LIQUOR BILL

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MELBOURNE, This Day. Official returns shows that the average animal expenditure on intoxicating liquors in Victoria in the coin-so of live vears for tilio period ended 11)00 was .-£3,09(1,300, or Gls per head of the population. I.'p to August last 407 .hotels wore closed lindcir the Licenses Reduction Act. LABOUR LEGISLATION. MELBOURNE, This Day. At the annual meeting of the Employers' Association the president voiced a strong complaint againsit tho labour legislation of the Federal Parliament. ICvery visitor, ho said, found something was wanting in Australian enterprise, and this ho attributed to labour legislation. He prophesied that if nationalisation schemes weirc adopted private, enterprise, would dio out. SEAMEN'S GRI J. /ANCES. SYD.M-.A', This Day. Tho secretary of blie Seamen's Union who has returned from the Melbourne Conference- states in regard to tho question of enforcing Australian working conditions on all ships trading on the Australian coasts, the conference agreed to wait thcpassing of the Navigation Act, which lie hoped would remedy the seamen's principal grievances.