DOMINIONS COMMISSION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2529, 2 August 1915, Page 6

DOMINIONS COMMISSION

REPRESENTATIVE WITHDRAWN

Melbourne, July 31. The Federal Government is withdrawing its representative from the Dominions Royal Commission, because it thinks the Commission has not justified its existence.

[In pursuance of a resolution .of the Imperial Conference of 1911, a, Royal Commission was appointed in April, 1912, "to inquire into tho natural resources, trade, and legislation, of certain portions of His Majesty's dominions." Mr. J. R. Sinclair is tho New Zealand representative on the Commission, which toured Australasia in 1913. At tlie outbreak of the war tho Commission, which' was then in Canada, was recalled.] MEAT FAMINE IN TASMANIA. Hobart, July 31. • Tasmania usually imports cattle in tho winter. This year,-owing to heavy exports to Victoria, a meat famine prevails. At recent sales, steers touched £38 10s., bullocks £31 2s. 6d., heifers £13 55., wethers 515., ewes 375., and lambs 255. 6d. These are tho highest prices recorded for years. MONEY VOTED FOR AN AIRSHIP. Hobart, July. 31. The Legislative Assembly has voted £1500 for the purchase of an nirship. FIRST WOMAN JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Adelaide, July 31. Mrs. Power, one of the receutlyi chosen Justices, sat on the Bench for (the first time. This is the first occasion in the history of the Empire that-the Bench has been occupied by a- woman.

SYDNEY HORSE SHOW. (Rec. August 2, 0.25 a.m.) Sydney, August 1. At the Horse Show, Mr. Charles Greentree's New Zealand-bred Baron Clutha won in the four-year-old Clydesdale class, and ivas also awarded the premium of £100 for the best draught stallion, t3ie judge remarking that if it had been a question of awarding tho championship lie would have chosen.the same owner's New Zealand-bred Prince Ronald, which wou the three-year-old Clydesdale class, in wliich Mr. E. Hall's New Zealand-bred General Douglas was second.

FOOD PRICES FIXED. , (Rec. August 1, 7.10 p.m.) Brisbane, August 1. A proclamation has fixed the prices of flour at £18 10s.; bran and pollard, £9 10s. per ton; butter, other than best, £9 10s. per cwt.; frozen beef, 4}d.; and mutton, 4Jd. per lb.