SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15955, 25 October 1919, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Australian and N.Z, Cable Association. CAPETOWN, October 23. A Unionist Conference, held at Bloemfontein, . unanimously adopted a resolution accepting the principles laid down by the Premier in Parliament regarding British connection, and condemning the Republican propaganda and recording the conviction that this must lead to bloodshed. N.S.W. POLITICS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY, October 24. The Re-drafted Children’s Maintenance or Living Bill contains all the essentials of the earlier Bill, the chief alterations being provisions enabling the Board of Trade to declare a minimum amount required tr> keep each additional child after one, also a reduction of payments for children by one-twelfth for each five shillings by which the parents’ wages exceeds the now living wage. Rural industries are excluded from the Bill unless they are already covered by an industrial award.