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Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1920, Page 3

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rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] 1 THE WHEAT ENQUIRY. SYDNEY, Oct. 28. Mr Storey announced in the Assembly that Justice Pring had decided to put Georgoson in the witness box. passport System. SYDNEY, Oct. 28. j The collector of customs stated it was no longer necessary for natural born British subjects leaving Australia for Now Zealand or vice versa, to hold permits. Aliens who are naturalised British subjects must hold passports. ' AMATEUR STATUS. SYDNEY, Oct. 28. The amateur status conference agreed that" amateurs shall not lose their status by competing with or against professionals in any game in which no money prize is offered. It nlso agreed that professionals may sit on governing bodies. Each decision was carried by 12 to 11, and now awaits endorsement by the individual sporting bodies.

RHODES SCHOLAR, SYDNEY, Oct. 28. Vernon Treatt of New South Wales declined the 1920 Rhodes scholarship on the grounds that the allowance under the scholarship was inadequate, in view of the present cost of living. REDUCTION OF LICENSES. ADELAIDE, Oct. 28. The President 0 f the Licensing Court curtailed hotel licenses in Adelaide by twelve, COMMERCIAL. MELBOURNE, Oct. 29 One hundred and fifty thousand bales of wool will be offered for sale in November throughout the Commonwealth, ! eighty thousand between Sydney and Brisbane, and seventy thousand in Other-States. Sydney sales are from Ist to 6th, Adelaide 12th and 27th, Melbourne 15th to 22nd, Albury 30bh. Owing to industrial troubles the dates are not fixed for Brisbane and Fremantle. With a view to encouraging the flaxindustry, the Federal ‘Government is guaranteeing growers £6 per ton for the 1921 crop. Hides are irregular and show a decline of twopence all round.