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Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1920, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN.

, (AUSTRALIAN & N.Z 34|jLB ABSjQCUI'IOiU] STOWING CHEESE PURCHASE. MELBOURNE, Slay 10. Advice luis been received that v.ie British Government has decided not to make a further purchase of impacted choose. SUPPLIES SHORT. SYDNEY, May 10. There is a butter famine threatened here. It is owing to dry and cold weather. The country supplies have serious ]y diminished. There is a shortage in the Tasmanian hop crop, together with small supplies from Victoria and New Zealand. This is causing the brewers concern. The price of Tasmanian hops is fixed at 3s 2d per lb, which is almost treble the former price. OIL FOR RENOWN. (Ilecoived this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The oil tanker Warkrishna has arrived'from Texas with a cargo of oil for the Renown’s bunkers. EXCHANGE RATE, fßeceived This Day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Private advices from India to-day stale the exchange rate of the rupee is 2s. SENTENCED. SYDNEY, This Day. McKintock, cabled on 27th April was sentenced to three years hard labour.

METHODIST CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Methodist Conference after a lengthy debate decided to hand over Solomon Islands to the Methodist Church of New Zealand in 1922 without attaching any proposed stipulation to the transfer. Rev Lawry thanked the conference for the generous manner m which it had reached its decision. The Conference further decided upon the transfer taking place, that the New Zealand Church retain the mission funds, that the Missionary Society ot Australia had invested in N.Z. fanny dijrack. SYDNEY, May 10. Fanny Durack, one of those chosen for the Olympic swimmers, has been operated on for appendicitis.