ne. Minister fox Trades and customs, Bit Gullat, does el cone ide that I is necessary to stall The lighthouses by telephone or telegraph. The expense associated with instilling wireless, which necessarily would aucan the establishment of " des patching set as well as x receiving one, is not warranted. In a recent Fcident, a wireless message was received by the interstate passenger steamer Katoomba, which was pas-singe Gabe Island lighthouse, that a doctor urgently was required upon the island, Mr. B. Wallach, the Director of Lighthouses. said that the captain of the vessel might have Known that Gabe Island was ¢on-neeted with the mainland by Phone, and that a doctor could ave been obtained from Eden, some fifty miles distant. In this ease. as ship was passing the Tigh* at the ime, it was thought a doctor could obtained more quickly from it than telephoning: through to Eden. to-day informing his public how is amusing to hear Mr, Gullett lticatt it was to do this and that. 'A very few years ago, Mr. Gullett was astern and unrelenting critic of tie Government and nothing, according to him, was difficult what cover, except the inability of the misters to cope with the situations Gtising. To-day, Mr. Gullett has all the palaver which for so many years has been the utterance of 'The report of the Economic Commission, the members of which comprise Sir Arthur Duckham, Sir] Hugo Hirst, Sir Evnest Clark, and Mz. D. 0. Malcolm, has been' submitted to the Prime Minister of] Australia and discussed before the Premiers Conference. The Commission has dealt with Australia's problems in a most satisfactory manner, Their criticism has been to the point and on the whole most favourably received. Regarding Australia's development schemes, the members of the Commission were unanimous in declaring that too much money hax been spent unprofitably on development scheme fs without regard to their probable financial and economic results. Adequate preliminary: investigation fof the schemes docs not appear to rade, The Commission it. "despite the fact jao unnecessarily and ture. the present position of the Commonwealth is) sound in the songo that its na Sources of public revenue are amply Suificient to pay for the government and to provide for public services fand the repayment of the public debt. recommendation made by the! Commission is the establishment of a uniform railway gauge throughout Australia. This recommenclation is likely to have far-reaching results, because it has, during the Inst few years, dawned upon the minds of the State politicians that the present system of guage is!
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