AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 July 1921, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

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| NEW COMMONWEALTH SHIP. BRISBANE, July (>. i A new Commonwealth steel steamer j the Edition, of 5000 tons, has been sue i eessfully launched at Maryborough. " I - '— | NEWCASTLE WATER SUPPLY. ! SYDNEY, July 6. The Newcastle water supply is al most exhausted. This is the result of : break in the main from the reservoir As a« water is now available for indus trial purposes, the steel works art dosing. PRTC’E OF BETTER. SYDNEY, July 0. The Profiteering Court has increased the wholesale price of butter by out half-penny per pound. LOAN FAILURE. (Received This Day at 10.15 n.m.) SYDNEY, July 7. Treasurer Lang has abandoned tin loan of £500,000 for road-making pur poses. Only one-fifth' was subscriber after a four months’ campaign. WOODEN SHIPS. SYDNEY, July 7 The Commonwealth is inviting tendon for the sale of five wooden steamer: purchased in America during the war. FEDERAL TARIFF. MELBOURNE, July 7. Mr Massey Green moved the seconc reading of a bill to appoint a Tarif Board to study incidence of tariffs am their relationship to industry, with tin object of encouraging Australia’s sc condary industries. The proposal aim: nt adjusting the future tariffs on mor* intelligent and scientific lines than t!i< present. FEDERAL POLITICS. • MELBOURNE, July 7 A feeling is existing in political circles that the Country Party wil launch a censure motion against the Government when the truce with Hon W. Hughes ends in September. MOUNT .MORGAN MINES. BRISBANE, July 7 The Mount Morgan employees have denounced the action of their delegates in rejecting the Company’s offer and virtually accepted the terms of the ballot they desired. CONFUSED STREET TRAFFIC. SYDNEY, July 7. The reversal ol the pedestrian order from “keep to the right’ to “keep to the left." is causing some confusion. Policemen have been posted at the busy corners enforcing the new rule. CONDEMNATION OF THE PRESS. SYDNEY, duly 7. '1 he ex-Premier, Mr Holman, in an address on public <|Uostions, said society and the university denounced tilt l Australian press as a sinister influence, whose interests were opposed to the interests of the community. The newspapers aimed at attracting the crowd who read nothing else so that the circulation was expanded and advertisers dazzled. There was no function about which the new papers could give (lea; and accurate accounts, and the last tiling they sought was news of solid and important matter, which was neglected for cheap, stupid and shallow sensationalism, no matter how incapable it was reported, so long as the writei escaped. Libels were what newspapers wanted. He (the writer) was the man who could cram the most sensationalism into the square inch. As lor the cables, there were columns devoted to unimportant things. Over these the press were rushing into one piece of hysteria after another. The whole spirit of the newspaper to-day was to make tlieii circulation jump no matter what sacrifice was involved.

COMMONWEALTH TARIFF HOARD

(Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 7

The Tariff Board consists of thro,, members, one from the Administr.ii i'staff of the Customs’ Department and two outsiders.

Mr Massey Green moved a resolution dealing with dumping, which later lie embodied in the Anti-Dumping Bill. It provides against dumping in Austral to of goods bought at export price and less than fair market vain*- at the time of shipment, and goods affected hv the exchange value of the currency of the country of origin, when they are sold to an importer at a price detrimental to Australian industry. In such <ascdumping duties will he levied.