AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association MELBOURNE, Dec. 19. Passenger trnflic on the east and wesl railway resumes on December 30. SYDNEY, Dec. 19.
The Parliamentary sittings have endec and it is improbable the House will meet "gain before the’ elections. SYDNEY, Dec. 19. The MT’.eat Commission has adjourned in definitely. The Commodities Commission will grant an increase of 90s per ton on oatmeal, which is now £37 10s.
Cabinet has approved of an increase in railway fares by 20 per cent, and freights by 10' per cent; trains one halfpenny extra on tluj second and third sections. The Assembly passed Ihe permanent six o’clock closing of hotels Bill. PERTH, Dec. 20. Generals Birdwood and Monash hav6 arrived and wore enthusiastically welcomed. The Cabinet is paying a fortnight’s salary in lieu of leave to all teachers who went to the front for each year spent on active service.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1705, 20 December 1919, Page 6
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