AUSTRALIAN' PREMIERS CONFERENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2098, 5 June 1907, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN' PREMIERS CONFERENCE.

REFRIGERATED FREIGHT.

United Press Association —Copyright

BRISBANE, June 4.

The Premiers’ Conference adopted a resolution urging that as the question of refrigerated freight was seriously affected by the mail service remaining unsettled, immediate steps be taken by the Commonwealth to arrange a satisfactory contract. The Conference carried Mr. Carruthers’ motion objecting to the proposed agreement for the transfer of the Northern Territory to the Commonwealth.

It was decided to send the New South Wales entomologist to visit countries infested with the fruit fly, to enquire as to the best means of fighting the pest.

SATISFIED WITH THE WORK

THE SUGAR INDUSTRY,

SYDNEY, June 4

Sir John Forrest has returned from Brisbane. He expresses himself as pleased with the decisions of the Premiers’ Conference on the question of the relations of the States and the Commonwealth, hut disappointed that no • favorable decision was come to regarding State debts. While in Queensland Sir John Forrest made extensive enquiries in regard to the sugar industry in the northern part of the State. Ho considers the industry profitable. Some planters were depressed at the outlook, but the majority are hopeful. The Kanakas have almost disappeared, and are practically a thing of the past.