VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1921, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

41. TfiIEORABH —-I’IIESS ABSN., COI'YIIIOHT. SENATE CRITICISM. ' MELBOURNE, .August 24. The Senate, criticised. the appointment of Mr Shepherd as Australian representative at the League of Nations, Mr Gardiner contending it was unfair to Australia and the League. He asked could not an office boy messenger ill the High Commissioner’s office be spared for such a position. Mr Milieu replied that he knew nothing beyond the fact that Mr Hughes made the appointment. NEWSPAPER. MANAGER. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 24. R. \V. Robson formerly a member of Auckland “Herald” staff, has been appointed general manager of the Daily Telegraph in succession to Mr Watkins Wynne. % END OF WAR. MELBOURNE, August 24. The Federal Government proclaims the end of a state of Avar excepting .with the Ottoman Empire at midnight on 31st. August. AUSTRALIA’S HOUSES. MELBOURNE, August 2-f. *»> The census has disclosed there are 1,208,586 dwelling houses in Australia an increase of nearly thirty-three per cent in ten years. TARIFF DEBATE. MELBOURNE, August 24. The Senate debating the tariff carried reductions of five to seven and a h"lf per cent in the proposed duties on agricultural machinery.