N.S. WALES POLITICS
MAJa&ITT LABOUR PARTY. A TENTATIVE POLICY. ■?-V vr ■ ■ - SELF-GOVERNMENT. Pr&f' Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, April 28. YTho-Majority Labour Party drafted a tentative policy, including complete, selfgovernment-, as* a British community, one sovereign’. Parliament for the conununTfeaßh,.'the" abolition of State Parliament* and Governors, all duplicated departments to be amalgamated, Federal electorates, Jo he grouped according to a population quota, means of communication, and community of interest. MEMBER’S SALARIES. ■TVT ; A FURTHER AMENDMENT. SUPER TAX BILL. 7 ' SYDNEY, April 28. In the Assembly the Salaries Bill was .'ggSin amended to date from’July 1, excase of Ministers, who voluntortly f&gr.egd to a reduction of. £275 per annum from March 25. Progress- was revolted near midnight, and the • Assembly adjgufnedi until Tuesday. ._The-Legislative Council passed the Supet Eatßill through all its stages .A’-10-T'? • 0F REDUCTIONS. “■'DIVERSITY OF OPINION. .;c»1 . SYDNEY, April 28. ; ?y r fE£&qelved April 28, at 7.15 p.m.) ' A qj|p:tlq?ihers’ Salaries Bill ns not yet out—of .the; wood. Sir George Fuller’s mfteritfbn was to force it through at one aitlingr‘tut he found the feeling was against rushing it, and he had to consent to- holding it over til] next week, when fHe ; Marions proposed amendments will be .discussed-. The debate disclosed a good deal:of! cavilling amongst the various sections'! over the Bill, and much diversity of opinion as to the scope 'of the reductions, aqips- favouring as much as £SOO. One of-V-the main weapons used against the Government was that the reduction in Nfinirteri’al salaries was disproportionate ■to: >t£4t‘ pf-the members’ salaries. The defence was that at the time the salaries w.ere"" raised members got an increase of; ceht.. and Ministers only’a 40 per advance, and Ministers were making the reduction retrospective for themselves. PACT OF PEACE. GERMANY WILLING TO CO- ’ i’s-) ..-o- OPERATE, in • GENOA, April 23. ’ April 28, at 5.5 p.m.) _,lt is .stated that if M. Poincare refuses to colne-to Genoa the Allies are prepared to-meet without him. Herr Rathenau declares that Germany •■will willingly enter a pact of peace. fa-iiauthoritatively stated that Mr Lloyd George is determined to open' all ip regard to reparations at a ■ meelppgUof . the Versailles signatories.—A. VasIfNIZ. Gable. OF PRIVATE DEBTS. jgfesiAN DELEGATE'S - STATEMENT. GENOA, April 28. (Received April 28, at 5.5 p.m.) . —Apropos, of the Russian attitude,. M. ffcmtchefin states that it. is impossible -for- Russia -to surrender on the question Ohthe"'payment of private debts when the "Governments not participating im-the-conference are not disposed, to make ''l3»h£is)hi fibhfc'essions. Hence the failure of ’the'- conference seems inevitable. It is ibeing, stated that there is a .possibility toati'tbat Russians will meet the Italian ViW&WBj "fetid will submit the Allies’ de.Stands, to Russian public opinion, returnrtnglfotl another conference in tWo br three fiortthsi-.—IA. and N.Z. Cable. r r ■ert 'vsa&aili? ! ’
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18541, 29 April 1922, Page 10
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