AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2850, 15 August 1916, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

: ; —-, FEDERAL FOOD BOARD RESIGNS GOVERNMENT RESTRICTIONS _ ■ RESENTED. < ■ • : By, Telegrajiir-Press Association—Copyright • .Melbourne, August 13. As a result of Govemihent restricting the powers of the Federal Prices Adjustment. Board, the board has re, signed. •- BREAKINC UP THE METAL RINC. RESTRICTIVE REGULATIONS. v Melbourne, August 13. } A! regulation- is being issued prohibitany agreement for the sale of a mining or metallurgical company being entered into with a person not a naturalised British subject and' residing in the Empire, without the consent. , \ OBITUARY. SIB. GEORGE TURNER, Melbourne, August 13.' Sir Gcorga Turner, formerly Com-' monwealth Treasurer and Premier of ' ■ iVictoria, is dead. •; ' . ,:V' [The-Right Hon; Sir George Turner,; K.C.M.G., LL.D., was born in Mel-! : -bourne, on August 8,1851. For many years he practised at the bar. Ho . first entered politics in 1889, when hu • was returned as member of ( the Vic-, torian Assembly. Ho was Commissioner of Trade and Customs and Minister of Health,'lß9l-92, and also Soli- . : citor-General until 1893, in the Munro . Bnd Shiels Governments. He was -Premier and Treasurer from September, 1894, to December, 1899; Minister for Defence 1894-95, and Premier and Treasurer again from, 1900. to 1901, ' when he retired from the State Legislature to enter ' the Commonwealth Parliament. Sir George Turner won high repute both in tho Stato and , Commonwealth political spheres. He took a leading part in the Federal movement, was a promiucnt member of the National Convention which framed the Constitution, and Treasurer of the first Federal Ministry, June, 1901, to , September, 1903. Heeontinued in of--Xfice with the Deakin •until April, 1904, and was again Trea- : - surer from August, 1904, to July, 1905. He retired from politics oil account of his health. Sir George Turner visited England as ;t guest of the Imperial Government on the occasion bf Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, in 1897, . and was creatcd a i r ;ivy Councillor and V K.C.M.G., and made LL.D. of Cam- \ bridge-1 ITEMS IN BRIEF. QUEENSLAND. SUGAR. ESTIMATE. (Rec. August .14, 9.20 p.m.) 1 Brisbane, August 14. The Superintendent of Experimental Station* estimates that Queensland's • . sugar output this soason will total ~ ■ 186,000 tons, of the value of £3,348,- : ■ 000. : CHEMISTS WANTED FOR BRITAIN. (Rec. August 14> 9.40 p.m.) Sydney/August 14. ; <• i The Government is inviting applications from chemists or chemical engin- ] ecrs to fill'fifty positions in explosives . factories in Great Britain.