FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.
. DECEASED WIFFS SISTER. . . OLD AGE PENSIONS. AIR ISAACS’S ATTACK ON THE ’ GOVERNMENT. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, October 21. The Gov'ernment intends to make earnest) representations to the Imperial Government, ' to take steps to recognise in England the legality of marriage with a deceased wife’s sister, contracted in the colonies. The House has appointed a Select Com- - mittee to report on the best means of establishing old age pensions in the Commonwealth. ■ It is understood that the Labour caucus , decided to support Mr Isaacs’s threatened 1 attack on the Government on the proposed appointment of a Tariff Commission. EMPIRE DAY. .MELBOURNE, October 21. The (Federal Cabinet approves the establishment of Empire Day, but prefers to celebrate the King’s Birthday rather than swell the already long list of holidays by holding Queen Victoria’s Day. ’
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXII, Issue 13575, 22 October 1904, Page 7
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136FEDERAL PARLIAMENT. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXII, Issue 13575, 22 October 1904, Page 7
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