AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15222, 21 May 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

Elec- Tel Copyright- United Press Assn.) SYDNEY, May 20. General Birdwood's departure for New Zealand, has been postponed till May 27. -..,.' MELBOURNE, May 20. According to tlie . Wheat Board returns, export contracts included 819,000 bushels to the New Zealand Government which, has still to be shipped. s (Received May 21, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 21. A committee has been formed to consider the establishment of a State Grand Opera Company and the erection, of a State Opera Houst. Hotel accommodation for the Prince's visit is already exhausted. The tariffs have been increased 1,00 per cent. A case of pneumonic influenza i.as developed on the minesweeper Geranium. Mr. McGerr's family endowment scheme will involve 100 per cent, m- 1 crease m taxation. The Labor Council decided! to resort to arbitration to secure a 44-hour week. BRISBANE; May 21. The prohibition referendum - will be taken on October 30. * MELBOURNE, May 21. Barley, English, 7s 4d, 7s 6d ; Cape 6s 3d, 6s 6d ; oats, Algerian 6s, 6s $ potatoes, £13, £13 10s : onions. £13 10s, £14. t - . The continuation is announced of meat contracts between Australia and the Imperial Government. . „They provide for the- sale to Britain ofj.ail the exportable surplus. The Senate passed d-hes. Oil- -Agreement The (Speaker, on behalf of the House of Representatives, and the President, on behalf pf the Senate, at a gathering at Parliament House, presented ■ the thanks of the Cbmnftnwealth to the Navy and Army for tHeir services m the war, to representatives of both forces. In the House of Representatives Mr Hughes introduced a Bill increasing members' salaries to £1000 annually. Some opposition was manifested. Mr Williams' motion for extension of the moratorium was negatived. t Colonel Ryrie, speaking m favor of compulsory military training for boys, urged the necessity of Australia being ready for defence, as there might be a menace not far away. He instanced Germany as only waiting for Che day of revenge. She would wait fifty or one hundred years. The Federal Government is considering a proposal that all enemy property m the islands be liquidated and the proceds credited m part to the reparation that Germany owes the Commonwealth.