FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.
INDUSTRIAL PEACE BILL THE BUDGET. AND THE COAL SHORTAGE. (Electric Telegraph.—Copyright). (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This day. Mr Hughes, moving the second reading of the Industrial Peace Bill, emphasised the fact that the Arbitration Court would remain at work side by side with the suggested tribunals. Mr Cook announced that he would present the Budget within a few weeks. It is understood that fresh taxation to the extent of two to three million pounds is foreshadowed. Mr Hughes, questioned in the House as to the coal shortage, attributed it to three reasons —lack of shipping, increased export, and frequent stoppages. If Parliament chose it could pass enabling legislation blocking export, but such would be against the best interests of Australia. He declined, to utilise the large reserves at Newcastle for the home markets, as he had been reliably informed a coal strike was imminent. The Government would therefore require it for warships and the mercantile marine.—(A. & N.Z.)
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8363, 30 July 1920, Page 3
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