CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1917, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

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(FEE FBESB ASSOCIATION. —COPTBIGHT,] The World’s Wheat. Berlin, Eeb 22 Herr Heferich states that the years worlds wheat crop ie thirty-six million tons against fifty-six million tons last year. The bulk of the English grain must be imported from Australia, entailing a triple length of route and therefore a triple tonnage.

Elected Unopposed.

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London. Feb 21

A Coalitionist, Colonel Stirling Kerr was returned unopposed for Wo*t Perthshire.

Mr Massey to Speak

London, Feb 21

Rfc Hon W. F. Mansey bas accepted 1 an invitation to address the Liverpool Chamber of Commeice on the expaneion of New Zealand trade after the •war. Port Augusta to Kalgoorlio I i (Australian & N.Z Cable Association). Melbourne, Feb 22 I The rails on the Port Augnsta- ( Kalgoorlie railway have been laid for i 944 miles, leaving a gap between the eastern and western sections of 109 miles. The work is held up owiDg to a shortage of rails,

Imperial Institute.

London, Feb 22

At, the inaugural mooting of the re-conßtruoted Nsw Zealand Committee of the Associated Imperial Institute, Sir Thos MacKeuzie said they ban changed the constitution, coinciding with the change of the iuter-Im-perial trade policy. It affords an opportunity of development which New Zealand would promptly seize.

Lord Islington said there ought to be better exhibits from Overseas. Ia many respects New Zealand was an example to English agriculturists.