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COCKATOO island INQUIRY
SYDNEY, May 7
At the Cockatoo Dock enquiry, an officer of the Naval Works Department gave evidence that extensive timber frauds were carried out on the island. He quoted as an example one ease in which men sent to requistion nine hundred feet of timber from the dockyard store took five thousand feet The witness gave further evidence that a man who had been concerned in a big African flour conspiracy, involving £26,000 after serving a sentence of nine months, secured a responsible position at the Island, where his duty was to pass accounts.
GERM AN-A USTRALIAN TRADE. MELBOURNE, May 6. In the Federal House of Representatives, Mr Massey-Green, in reply to a question, stated the imports from Germany were still being severely restricted, but there was no country in the world to which Australia may not export as freely as before the war. QUEENSLAND *fjEAD SMELTING. BRISBANE, May 6. The Minister of Mines has announced that it is expected to restart the lead smelters at CJhillago (North Queensland), by the end of the month, i
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1921, Page 4
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187AUSTRALIAN. Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1921, Page 4
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