THE COMMONWEALTH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20042, 3 September 1920, Page 7

THE COMMONWEALTH.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian ond N.2. Cable Association, CENSURE MOTION DEFEATED. SYDNEY, September 3. The censure motion in tho Assembly was defeated by 40 to 37. PRICE OF BUTTER. Mr Storey, tho Premier, announced that ho, had refused to gazette tho increase in tho price of butter, in order to nullify tho decision of tho Commodities Commission, but later ho found that the latter body had had tho increase gazetted before tho Government instruction was given. * A FORTY-FOUR HOURS’ WEEK. Boilermakers and engineers aro holding a stop-work meeting tp reconsider the forty-four hour proposal, having previously decided against'' the idea. Other unions also contemplate new ballots on the question. ARBITRATION COURTMUDGES. MELBOURNE, September 3. In tho House of Representatives Mr Groom’s clause, providing' for three Judges in tho Arbitration Court, excited trenchant criticism by Labour and several members of Government Partywho suspected an indirect hit at Mr Higgins, of the Commonwealth Judiciary. The clause wills eventually earned by. 24 to 17. COMMONWEALTH NOTE ISSUE. Sir Joseph Cook introduced a Bill transferring tho note issue from tho Treasury to the Commonwealth Bank, and providing for 5s notes if necessary. NORTHERN TERRITORY INQUIRY. The expenses of'tho Ewing inquiry at Darwin have been published, and disclose that Judge Ewing received £4630 ns expenses. THE WIRELESS CHAIN. The 'Commonwealth. Government has received from the Imperial authorities the full text of tho wireless chain linking up the Empire, recommending valve stations in England, Cairo, Poona, Singapore, Hong Kong and Darwin or Perth, Tho capital cost is estimated at £1,243,000. ADVERTISERS’ CONFERENCE. Tho Advertisers’ Congress decided to appoint a Vigilance Committee in each State, to report at regular intervals, for tho purpose of cleaning up all advertising of a doubtful character.- The committee is to work in conjunction with tho police. Addresses wero delivered on utilitising advertising to increase immigration, as an impulse to production, as a vehicle of distribution and as a factor of industrial organisation.