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ADDENDA 
November 1911, which followed, returned the Government with 
andiminished strength. The Commonwealth by Act of 1911 has 
introduced compulsory registration, and has abolished the postal 
vote and substituted an absent vote, which New South Wales adopted 
by Act No. 9 of 1911. The measure was criticized as unfair to 
women and invalids, and defended on the ground of corruption 
in the use of the postal vote. See also Humphreys, Proportional 
Representation. Prince Edward Island has not yet adopted the 
ballot. See also New Zealand Act No. 19 of 1911. 
Pace 625. In 1911 the Victorian Council suggested an amendment 
to the Public Works Loan Appropriation Bill, which would have 
reduced an item for cold storage by £75,000, and altered the applica-~ 
tion of the sum left (£9,000). The Assembly declined to accept the 
suggestion, whereupon the Council rejected the Bill on the third 
reading (Debates, 1911, pp. 1967, 1998), and it also so changed a 
measure regarding wages boards that the Government abandoned 
it. On the other hand, it unexpectedly passed the Bill for com- 
pulsory preferential voting, perhaps because it was expected to be 
disadvantageous to labour. In the same year the Tasmanian Council 
contented itself with rejecting a Bill regarding the maintenance of 
testators’ families. The South Australian Council rejected the 
Veto Bill in 1911 : under this Bill, if a Bill is passed thrice in separate 
and successive sessions by the Assembly, a general election inter- 
vening after the second passing, the Bill may be presented to the 
Governor for assent; in the Lower House the second reading was 
passed by 21 to 15, and the third by 21 to 10. In the debates it was 
pointed out that the result of giving women the franchise in 1894 
had been to increase the strength of the ownership voters and to 
render the House more Conservative : the proportions of voters are 
now, Assembly, 182,935 ; Council, 64,390. "It was also pointed out 
that since 1894 repeated efforts had been made to secure a better 
franchise ; in 1901-3 Mr. Jenkins’s Ministry proposed household 
suffrage and the dual vote; in 1905 the coalition of Labour and 
Democratic Liberals proposed £15 occupation qualification and the 
dual vote, but though this was carried in 1905 and 1906, and a 
general election fought on the point in 1906, yet even in 1907 only 
3 £17 occupation qualification without the dual vote was conceded by 
Act No. 920, together with votes for lessees with £50 improvements, 
ministers, teachers, postmasters, railway stationmasters, and officers 
in charge of police stations residing on government property, and the 
crease on the numbers enrolled was only 8,530 in three years. An 
adult suffrage proposal carried by 22 to 19 in the House was rejected 
in the Council by 4 to 12 in 1910, and the Land Tax Bill of the Govern- 
ment was rejected on second reading (Council Debates, pp. 473 seq.). 
At the end of 1911 the Council rejected the Appropriation Bill 
because it included provision for Government brick works for all 
purposes; an appeal for Imperial intervention was declined by the 
Secretary of State on the ground that every constitutional remedy