THE DECIMAL SYSTEM.
Suggested In Australia*
Press Association .-^Toloipraph.— Copyright Received J«ne-.d^i,;9136 a»m. . - , MELBOURNE, June 13. In' the House Mr Edwards nioved to adopt the Select Committee's report on the Comnjonwealth , coinage, and, claimed there was a unanimous opinion' in favour of a uniform decimal system." The adoption would prove a large source' of revenue. . , \. : ■* • . 'Sir George Turne^r, while favouring Australia "coining silver, said there was no indication that the poopl.e desired a change in Australia; and it would only create embarrassment by a-system n,ot in- uniformity to that in usq in Britain. t He moved an amendment to the, effect that the time was n6t ripe for a change, and that it should first be intr'oducedin Britain,' accompanied impossible by the metric system of weights and measures. The .debate Was adjourned.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10974, 13 June 1903, Page 5
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132THE DECIMAL SYSTEM. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10974, 13 June 1903, Page 5
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