AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18340, 2 September 1921, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

UNEMPLOYMENT IN SYDNEY. i AN ANGRY DEMONSTRATION. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, September 1. An unemployment deputation angrily demonstrated outside Parliament House. They subsequently marched to the Town Hall, with the object of raiding the supper tables at the hospital ball. Two shop windows cn route were broken. An arrest was made. DUTIES ON NEWSPRINT. MELBOURNE, September 1. In the Senate the ' Government’s proposal to reduce the intermediate general duties on newsprint, from £3 to £2 per ton was carried by 13 votes to 8. ELECTIONS. THE POSITION'UNCHANGED. MELBOURNE, September 1. The election position is unchanged. It is understood that Labour will launch a censure' motion when Parliament meets

on September 30. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. A N 0 -CONI IDEN CE MOTION. SYDNEY, August 31. In the Assembly Sir George Fuller moved a no-confidence motion, declaring that the Government was wanting in loyalty to the Crown and the Flag; that it had failed to adjust the finances, had imposed unduly heavy taxation, and had neglected to deal with unomplovment and to amend the Liquor Act. iho debate was adjourned. WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

AUSTRALIA AND GREAT BRITAIN. DIRECT SERVICE NECESSARY. SYDNEY, September 1. At the annual meeting of the Amalgamated Wireless of Australasia, Ltd., Sir Thomas Hughes, the chairman, urged the great necessity for providing a direct commercial wireless service between Australia and Great Britain. He said that he considered -the proposed English scheme unsuitable. both in respect to efficiencv and the undue cost of messages, and he declared that the Australasian company was in a position' to supply, on the best possible basis, one of Australasia’s greatest needs, with reasonable prospects for a good return on the capital required.—A. and N.Z. Cable. , NEXT STATE ELECTIONS. INDUSTRIALIST CANDIDATES. LABOUR GOVERNMENT UNSATISFACTORY. *

SYDNEY, September 1. (Received Sept. 1, at 9.50 p.m.) The Trades Hall has decided to run Industrialist candidates against the Labour members at the next State elections, the union leaders stating that the present Government is useless to them. TASMANIAN POLITICS. ADELAIDE, September 1. (Received Sept. 1, at 9.50 p.m.) The Assembly is debating a motion by Mr Butler for a reduction in the number of members in the Assembly and the Legislative Council by one-third.

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