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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 21, 1935
Page
2
London reports Beverley Baxter tells a British luncheon that New South Wales film policy is Machiavellian. He says the law targets distributors but not exhibitors, harming Australia’s competition with American films and urges Parliament to remove the anomaly.
Mrs Kane of New Zealand urged Dominion governments to allow a woman who marries a foreigner to retain her nationality. Mrs Littlejohn of New South Wales supported this, then moved on to limits on women earners and noted Australia helped introduce minimum basic wages with women earning about half of men. Mia Wheaton of Victoria argued housewives' work is very hard. All resolutions were carried.
A full Pennant Competition slate is scheduled for tomorrow with A Grade and C Grade (Division I) matches omitted. Key fixtures include Northbourne Park versus Weetangera in Mixed and Duntroon versus Ainslie in Men’s divisions, plus multiple Rearranged lineups across B and C grades.
Midweek matches in the A grade saw Reid defeat Barton in two rubbers, five sets, 44 games. L Bryan and G Bryan won both rubbers for Barton while Braddon I narrowly beat Braddon II in C1. Northbourne J beat Northbourne TL, Forrest beat Griffith, and a series of doubles pairings and mixed results followed across divisions.
Senator McLachlan defended government action on sourcing quotations for a fishery research vessel. A British builder prepared plans and solicited Australian and English tenders to compare costs. With quotations in hand, the government chose to construct in Australia to favor local shipyards and save on exchange rates and transport. Australian firms will be invited to submit competitive tenders.
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