FEDERAL-POLITICS
SEAT FOR MR HUGHES. MR PARKHILL GIVES WAY. REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS(United Press Association.) Received September 2, 12.30 p.m. SYDNEY, September 2. It is freely rumoured in National quarters that Mr Parkhill will give way at North Sydney for Mr Hughes, and that Mr Man- will retire, from Parkes for Mr Parkhill. MELBOURNE, September 2. In the House of Representatives the Victorian redistribution scheme, giving ten seats cacti to the metropolitan and cxlrn-mclropolltan areas, was carried on the voices. Mr .1 owe It, whose seat has disappeared, and others, contended that the basis of redistribution should be altered so that the number of seats increased with additional population, in lieu of the present scheme. Dumping exchange, duty amounting to 75 per cent ad valorem on German pianos has been gazetted and will apply from August 11.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15033, 2 September 1922, Page 5
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