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Newspaper

Cairns Post

Location

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Date

Nov 02, 1931

Page

10

Nightly Radio Tour of Venice and Wales Ends Day

A London style radio program relays evenings from 6.15 pm to 11.00 pm featuring musical interludes, talks, and a Venetian travelogue later taking listeners on a musical journey through Venice and Wales. It highlights gondola scenes, folk songs, and cultural vignettes with performances by The Mixed Quartette and various vocalists.

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The Gold Standard What Service Does It Render

Canberra dispatch summarizes a September government finance review. It explains the gold standard links monetary systems, fixes currency relations, stabilizes internal prices, and helps settle international balances. The MacMillan Committee view supports using gold relations to support world trade and price stability.

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Australia faces compulsory conversion of internal bonds

The Economist notes the shift from voluntary to compulsory conversion of Australian internal bonds worth £18.3 million held by 5,000 dissenters. It argues the move harms national credit, breaches contracts, and may raise doubts about future government borrowing in London and New York markets amid Premier Conference plans to raise funds with bonds over the counter.

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Rockhampton Evening Session Relay Times Noted

The Evening News lists Rockhampton schedule details for an early evening session from 0 p.m. to 6 6.5 and a night session from 4.0 p.m. to 11.30 p.m. Relays are from 4QG and provide wave lengths around 229 metres. Musial and other items appear in the service listing.

Bank for International Settlements and world money system

The text discusses the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland as a clearing hub for reparations and international payments. It notes the evolving world monetary system driven by trade, cooperation, and credit control, and contrasts gold reserves with uneven distribution among the United States and France.

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Primage Duty A Bounty On Export Signals South Africa Policy

Capetown reports that Finance Minister M Havenga announced plans for an immediate emergency primage duty on all imports costing one cent. Proceeds would fund a ten percent subsidy on primary exports except diamonds and sugar. Government pledges to uphold the standard and address reserve bank duties.

Capetowk Havenga Reserve Bank

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