FEDERAL POLITICS

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13607, 29 May 1908, Page 5

FEDERAL POLITICS

OLD AGE PENSIONS. TRADE WITH NEW ZEALAND. Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright MELBOURNE, May 28. The Federal Labour Party's caucus decided to support, the Government in passing a Surplus Revenue Bill, with an Old Age Pensions Bill as an attachment. The leader of the party is annoyed that no opposition will be offered to the vote of £250.000, which was f-truck out of the estimates last week, and in to be brought up a," a separate measure to mark the commeneemeni <jf the. policy of naval defence. .The House has concluded its consideration of the Senate's tariff requests. In .they 4S'enate, Mr Best, Vice-President of the Executive Council, said that 'the Government were aware of the arrangement between Cape Colony and New Zealand- for the introduction' of Cape wines • at specially reduced rates. He ddded that in the draft reciprocity treaty of 1906 between the Federal Government and Mr Seddon, preference was promised Australian.' wine?-. New Zealand statistics did. not show that Australian trade with New ' Zealand was suffering through South African" competition.;