'At the Show luncheon Sydney, the city of Easter festivity the Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, anrouneed that the' new migration teteement between the Inperial znd Commonwealth governments had -been signed, The amount money available to the States of to In my previous letter has been given some impetus by the arrest fof several prominent members of the police force in Melbourne. Four Jdetectives—one of whom, Detective W. F. Fowler, of the Railways has disappeared and no trace of him hi far been discovered—the others Detective-Inspector Oldham, Detective L. O'Sullivan and Detective T. McPherson, appeared before the City Court last week. Briefly the charges were (1) They demanded Jof Terrance Callagan with menaces the sum of £8,500 with intent to steal the same; (2) They conspired *ogether, unlawfully to obtain money. fiom Terrance Callaghan; (3) That they stole the sum of £1,000 the property of Terrence Callaghan. Mr. Callaghan, the proprietor of a Hotel paid the sum of £1,000 to these men and intended paying a further sum but was prevented by the astutene<s of his daughter who communicated with the bank and stopped her father drawing the larger sum. Stolen goods were al-Teged to have been found on the premises of the hotel, and Callaghan, who did not reside in the hotel but at a neighbouring suburb adequate medical treatment for the people, with the requisite machinery for the prevention of sickness and, accident. The report had been pre sented to Mr. Bruce, the Prime Minister, on March 3 but was not made public until this week. The main features of the report are the payments of one pound per week to all insured male members.
reaching the age of 65 and to.
female members upon the azo.
60 years. As it is proposed to insurance compulsory, time will efface the existing old age Pension scheme, which it is not intended to interfere with at present, also the maternity bonus, roved futile both to the births and the saving of the nothers' lives as well as becoming 4 means by which unscrupulous pet rons obtained money not legally. jane to them.
7 The payment of Pensions, where itis not possible for the mother to work for the upkeep of her children, of 5/1 per week is also advocated. Sickness benefits the rate of one pound per week will be paid to insured members under the age of 12 years and one pound ten shillings per week to devices in every day use in the Argentine. If the Australian worknen would only relax their opposi-ion to the more advanced types of ranchinery for handling meat, he ys many of the plants now' idle in Australia would be in full swing. Then the Australians could compete on the markets the other side of the world with a more equable standing to his Argentine opponcat. It-is understood that Australia received this year part of the order for the 1,500,000 tins of corned beef required by the British Army.
has not been officially disclosed, Tmt it is understood that the bulk. of the order will be supplied by the Eansinena Ca., an Argentine company, whose tender is alleged to be 7/3. a dozen tins. Australi tenders "were appro. ately 20. per cent. above the Argentine compan; price. If this is correct Australia is lucky to have secured even a jor portion of the order. Sir George Johnston is only partly correct in his statement. The entire Mame for the most unsatisfactory state of affairs is not the burden of unionism alone, but a combination of the apathetic employers and immortality not otherwise to be achieved. In some cases it has its cees, ike the unauthorized jgnatures on the Pyramids, But there seems a peculiar meanness in Jcompeting with a man for remem-Drance on his own tombstone.
New York police, in one of their round-ups not long ago, ar~ rested an ex-convict, who resented very. bitterly the action police as he was going absolutely he" and engaged in a legi-'When asked what this vocation was he proclaimed proudly that it was "boot-legging." "The rumour is that the police released deed, according to the New York "Nation," bost-Tegging is, now a perfectly reepectfable industry, It is true it received setback when the police reluctant arrested a pedlar who wag selling cognac from house to house, but despite this the "Nation" mains firm in the belief that "it the authorities continue to enforce the prohibition law with their pres sent determination alcoholic drinks will soon be on sale at every news-he stand and in every self-respecting Australia is £20,000,000. This sum Jwhere he had 2 milk round, thought members over the age of 21 years. ist. Many employers will not shop.'
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