AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17067, 27 July 1917, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT. Press AsTOciatioa—By U.elegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. MELBOURNE, July 26. In the Federal Senate the Bill to repeal the Daylight Saving Act was read a first tune. The third reading of the -Unlawful Associations Bill was carried. Sir John Forest, Treasurer, stated in the House of Representatives that the War Profits Bill would not apr>ly to a business earned on outside the commonwealth although the owners of it might reside here unless the produce-is sold in the common.! A clause in tfoa New. Companies TtiTl. •copied from the New Zealand Act pr£ vides that the remuneration of directors shall be limited to £1000. Approximately expected the revenue to be received under the Bill mQ be £900,000 for two years. STATE PARLIAMENTS. MELBOURNE, July 26 In * h e Victorian Legislative Assembh Mr Emslie's no-confidence motion waf negatived by 31 votes to 29. BRISBANE, Jnly 26 .The Queensland Legislative Council decided by 13 votes to 3 to amend the Arbitration Act, so as to i?rovide, in accordance with an agreement reached by both Houses, that the question of preference to unionists shall be excluded from the operations of. the Act. SYDNEY, July 26. In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Colonel Onslow gave notice of motion that members' salaries be reduced to £300 per annum.