AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1921, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAnt.K ASSOCIATION. BREAD PRICE RAISED. SYDNEY. Sept. 26 The New South Wales I’pifiL-ering Court has increased the nri< e of hr d by one farthing per 21h loaf. MT. MULLIGAN RELIEF FUN I ' SYDNEY. Sent. 26 3’lie Lord Mayor has upened a fund for the relief of the Mount Mulligan mine victims’ dependents. SYDNEY AND THE I’LLOCK. SYDNEY, sept. 26. There have been no further developments in the plague situation. ANTIDUMPING PROPOSALS. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY. 3’his Day. Mr Massey Green addressing tb ( , Na_ tion.nl Club, indienfed the underlying principles of the proposed anti-dump-ing legislation. It was intended to impose additional duties where it was found that foreign manufacturers could dump goods in Australia at prices I eInw the cost of production, or lielow a price at, which the goods were sold in the Home market. Special duties would tie imposed where it was found that foreign factories were taking advantage of the depreciation of exchange rates, to dump goods in Australia. The Allies would he immune from special duties unless they were using th,. deprecated exchange to the disadvantage of Australia. The Minister quoted from it letter written by a .Berlin commercial man. who boasted that Germany was able to export goods at. a: price against which no other <i entry could compete, as a result of which all the unemployed in Germany had been absorbed, the cry now being not for work, hut for hands.

DROP IN PRICES. SYDNEY. This Buy. The Commonwealth statistician’s figures record a decrease of twenty per et'ut. in food and groceries in New South Wales during the past o.ir and gradual decreases in other States. NORTHERN TERRITORY JUD'SK (Received This Dnv at. 10.15 a.m.i MELBOURNE, S.-pt. 27. Fifteen applications wore received for the Judgeship of Northern Territory at a salary of L‘looo sterling. CANBERRAMELBOURNE. Sept. 27. Lord Nortlu-liffe lias cancelled. for the time being, his visit to Canberra. Mr Chapman, a member of the House of Representatives telegraphed: “You saw Washington in \meriea, Canberra is the Australian prototype. See it. Melbourne is a stop-gap capital and will block you if it can.” JAP CARGO SERVICE. MELBOURNE, Sept. 27. | Despite the lack of cargo from. Australia to United States, the Yamisbidn ! Risen Knislin of Japan is inaugurating. ' a cargo steamer service between Pacific Coast ports and Australia, calling jat New Zealand on route. A start 1 will he mada next month, with the I Yishma Mnru and thereafter there will bo monthly sailings.