THE METRIC SYSTEM.
The Federal House has forced the hands of the Barton Administration on the decimal coinage question, and as the best solution the Commonwealth Premier successfully proposed that the United Kingdom should be asked to institute a compulsory metric system which colonies might adopt if their Legislatures chose to do so. This shelves the matter for a year, as far as Australia is concerned. The time could hardly be better used by those interested in the uniformity of moneys through the Empire than in endeavouring to secure the support of the Imperial Parliament to the Australian proposal. We suggested last week that Mr. Seddon might work cordially with the evidently loyal and well-designed scheme of the Federal Government to place Imperial before local standards. The resolutions carried in the Federal House place this scheme in a definite and concrete form, and might well be duplicated by our New Zealand Parliament. That is, of course, if, as we naturally assume, the feeling is decided on behalf of a decimal coinage reform, on lines to be decided and initiated by the Imperial Government and acceptable to our kindred customers in the United Kingdom.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12303, 22 June 1903, Page 4
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