AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8866, 17 July 1907, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Press Association—Copyright. MEr.nogKJvE, July 17. The House read the Quarantine Bill a second time.

Tho Bounties Bill was introduced. It provides for a total expenditure of £530,000, spread over 15 years. The bounties are payable to growers and producers only, and the employment of white labour is required._ The articles for which bounties will be paid are: Cotton, flax, hemp, mohair, dried fruits, coffee, tobacco, rubber, rice, preserved fish, combed wool, oil, materials from copra, cotton seed, linseed, sunflower seed, peanuts, olives and palm fruit.