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Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1922, Page 1

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UNDER RETRENCHMENT. MELBOURNE, June 22. Under the Military Retrenchment Scheme the Commonwealth Woollen Mills at Geelong will he sold. Enquiry disclosed the fact that the requirements of the Defence Department are now insufficient to keep the mills running. To do so would mean supplying a large quantity of the output to outside trade and Government docs not desire to enter into that class of manufacture in now of the influx of immigrants, including those of alien and other foreign nationalities which 's expected largely t<> increase during the next few years.

TO TEST LOYALTY. MELBOURNE, June 22. Hon Hughes is considering an amendment of the law relating to the oath of allegiance with the object of im- . posing a sufficient test- of loyalty. j AUSTRALIAN MEAT. SYDNEY. June 21. Speaking at the Millions Club. Alt CYnrnsie. deputy chairman of the Meat Board said the board was having a. hrd fight to bold the English market. He believed Australia would never get the beef market back again, because they could not compare with Argentine. He claimed that the Board could handle frozen meat- second to none in the world, hut after the meat left the Home hush alihatoirs. the board bad no control over it. The meat was carried through the streets and exposed to the dust and left unprotected on wharves. He concluded by saying: “Unless better means of handling are introduced. Australia in five years, will have lost the export trade.” ' retailers oppose control. SYDNEY. June 21. Evidence was taken in the application by the Retail Butchers’ Association for the de-control of retail meat prices. The Secretary of the Court announced that he is instructed not to oppose the application. UNIFICATION OF GUAGE SCHEME. SYDNEY. June 22Mr McPherson, treasurer for Victoria. states that Victoria, while agreeing to Mr Hughes’s unification of railway gauge proposals in the abstract, >s not prepared to go on with the scheme as the time is not opportune owing to the high cost of materials and labour. TASMANIAN POLITICS. HOBART, June 22. Sir Walker Lee lias been reappointed leader of the Nationalist Party. Colonel Snowden has been appointed to fill a vacaiit ministerial portfolio. Mr .1. Newton succeeds Mr Uavs, who was defeated at the polls, as honorary minister. BASIC AY A OIL SA'DNEY. June 22. The full industrial court delivered judgment to the powers of the Board of Trade to fix the basic wage at intervals of less than twelve months. A majority of the Court found the recent basic wage declared was good and valid, the President of the Court (Justice Edwards) being the only dissentient.

GOOD N.S.AV. RATNS. SYDNEY. June 22. * T.i.dit to moderate rain has fallen, throughout the State, proving most . opportune in helping tlie late sown crops and winter feed. WATER (.00 CUP. , SYDNEY, Juno 22. In the first round of the AVaterloo Purse, Royal Salute and Royal Cadet both won heats. Pretty Mickie was withdrawn front the heat in tlie first round of the A\ nterloo Plato. A GERMAN’S AVILL. BRISBANE, June 22. The High Court has granted leave for an appeal by tlie Public Curator, representing the beneficiaries in Germany against a decision of the Full Court, which held that, residuary bequests under the will of William Mitchcr were void, on the ground that they were against regulations existing during the war time. Alitcher was a naturalised British subject, who died in 1918 and bequeathed large sums to his people and to charities in Germany.

AVTTITE AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE, June 21

A letter has been received by the Chairman of the Chamber of Alanitfacturers from prominent business men touring the world, stating that they found a. bitter feeling in Ceylon, India. Palestine. Egypt, and various continental centres against the AATiite Australia policy, so much so that they absolutely refused to trade in goods urgently required and which Australia could supply. The feeling was especially bitterin India, while in Egypt, there was a marked set against anything imported from the British Dominions.