Melbourne, Apr. 15.
If W. 8, Gilbert were alive, it certain he would find material for a comic opera in the present ludicrous situation in the ranks of the Labour Party in New South Wales, The Australian Labour Party, which controls the nomina= tions For political honours in. that State, has decided that in future labour politicians, who have enter= parliament with their endorsee ent, shall pay a tax. The rate of payment hay been fixed at £4 10s, per year, It ix not mentioned what tax Will be paid should the Labour Party be returned to power and the salaries of those men appointed to ministerial positions increased. In such a ease the levy, or rate of payment, necessarily will be me creased." This levy is to be utilized for political funds. The innovation is a popular one with all members of the Labour Party except those actually in Parliament, who object strongly. They not only object, but have stated most emphatically that they have not the slightest inten= tion of paying the money demand The threat held over the heads of members who refuse to pay is the nonselection of them to. contest their electorates at the next general The result of Labour ing their popularity machine organization'
wed disastrous in the past, Int, if the entire Labour enueus, ly rumoured in this instance, re fuses to pay the levy, the interesting position will arise of the pres ent Labour politiciane in the State of New South Wales being dismissed from the party in a body, a new set of candidates then opposinie the well-organized Nation" alist Party at the polls, The Dingo Menace What wolves are to some coune tries. the dingo, or wild dog, ik to Australia, At the Graziers Cone ference, at" the moment sitting, very potent remarks are being jel at dingo Ass usual, whet: er it he grazers farmers, the suggestion put forward that the matter he made one of Federal moment, the reason being that the valuation of the dingo scalp varies in different digtriets. The benas alps in Western Australia is lie in the is only endment also was carried conference to declare all ian dogs noxious animals. seen asserted that the Alsatian are adding a new viciousness to the dingo and that the paiwks are more daeing their operations.
Australian Cost as these ing. seine physi was evident from the mweent evide ence given by wives Tndastvial Commission in New South Wales, A won should have kad' "experience shill, ax she had conducted x bead sag well ae a hon ife, gave four she witness consid essential to at ins
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