PREMIERS' CONFERENCE
EXTENDED POWERS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH.
BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATIONS-COPYRIGHT. MELBOURNE, Jan. 19 The Premiers discussed Mr Holman's proposal for vesting in the Commonwealth wider powers.
Mr Holman opposed handing over the domestic commerce, and favored giving power to deal with new . protection tariffs, industrial arbitration, and nationalisation or control ■of inter-State monopolies. If, he said, the States permitted internal monopolies they should stew in their own gravy. : The discussion was adjourned until Mr Holman's draft Bill is circulated.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 20 January 1912, Page 5
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79PREMIERS' CONFERENCE Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 20 January 1912, Page 5
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