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Factories and Shops Acts, Victoria:
Cabinet-making, Chinese competition, [136] Definition of factory, amendments, [133], [139] Protection of workers in factories, [137], [140] Royal Commission of Inquiry into working of the Act of 1890, [134] Shops, hours of closing, [140] Tailoresses' Union, formation of, [135] Wage Boards, appointment of, [138]
Factories and workshops in Queensland, Royal Commission of Inquiry
into, [77]
Fair Rent Bill, New Zealand, [103]
Family Home Protection, New Zealand, Act of 1895, [101]
Federal Council:
Abstention of New South Wales and New Zealand, from, [216] Act of 1885 establishing, [215] Permissive character of, [216] Status of, effect of Federation agitation on, [229] Utility of, causes tending to minimise, [217]
Federation of Australasian Provinces:
Artificial boundaries between the provinces, [299] Australasian Federation Enabling Act [see that title]
Benefits of, [235] Climatic differences engendering divergence of opinions, [299] Committee appointed by House of Assembly, Victoria, to consider, [214] Constitution Bill [see that title]
Federal Council [see that title]
Hobart, Premiers' conference at, [227] Interdependence of Provinces, hastening establishment of, [230] Inter-provincial conference on, [214] New South Wales, Governor of, receiving commission as
Governor-General of Australia, [213] Plebiscite, new Federal constitution proposed, referring to, [228] Prospects of, [236] Sydney conventions, [215] Town and country inhabitants, difference in development of, [299]
Female Suffrage:
New Zealand:
C.D. Act, Repeal of, advocated by female voters, [196] Domestic servants' weekly half-holiday Bill, [203] Elections, Radical returns, [193] Electoral Bill of 1892 conferring franchise on all adult women, [192] Equal wages for similar work of men and women demanded by female
voters, [209] Juvenile Depravity Suppression Bill, [203] Liquor legislation and prominence of temperance movement, due to, [194] Modifications of female voters' views, [207] National Council of Women, resolutions passed by, [204], [205] Sentiment, tendency of subordinating reason to, danger of Female
Suffrage, [210] Totalisator, suppressing, result of, [196] Women's franchise leagues inducing female voters to support
candidates on moral considerations, [205] Queensland, result of adopting in, [185] South Australia:
Election to Parliament, women eligible for, [187] First elections under new franchise, [188]; results of, [189] Licensed Victuallers' Act, prohibition of employment of
barmaids, proposed under influence of, [191] Plebiscite [see that title]
Voting privileges accorded to female electors in, [192] Tasmania:
Plebiscite, proposed application of for, [177] Result of adopting in, [184] Victoria:
Plural voting, abolition of, included in Bill, [186] Result of adopting in, [184]
Finance [see title Revenue and Expenditure]
Financial crisis in Australia, causes of, [246]
Financial extravagance in New South Wales, means of diminishing, [34]
Financial statement, Queensland, 1896, extract with regard to export of
home produce, [79]
Foreign competition in Australasia:
Great Britain, hostility towards in consequence of, [296] Labouring classes' opposition to, [294]
Foreign politics, Australasians' imperialistic views of, [298]
Forrest, Right Hon. Sir John, [157], [166], [253]
Free trade policy of New South Wales, [212]
Fremantle, Government harbour works to induce mail steamers to call at,
[303]
Friendly societies and savings banks, individual efforts of labouring
classes demonstrated by, [259]
Frozen meat industry:
Queensland:
Distributing agencies, [80] Financial statement of 1896, [79] South Australia, receiving depôt at Port Adelaide, [21] Victoria, State advances for, [148]
Fysh, Hon. Sir P. O., [178]