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Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. MELBOURNE, August 24. A Daylight Saving Bill will be introduced in the State Legislative Assembly. It proposes that the clock bo advanced an hour from two o'clock in the morning on the first Sunday in October till the fir.st Sunday in March, • provided that New South Wales and South Australia legiskvtfc similarly. A petition signed by 135.000 persons has been presented to the Legislative Assembly, praying that the liquor-selling hours (hotels now close at 9.30 p.m.) be not altered. SYDNEY, August 24. In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Mr Holman anticipated that tho general election would be held late in January, 1917. Tho Women's Legal Status Bill, giving women the right, to sit in Parliament, was withdrawn on tho technical point that it was ultra vires under the Constitution Act.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16782, 25 August 1916, Page 4
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