AUSTRALIAN.
AUSTHAI lAN AND N.Z. OAHI.R ASSOeUTDIN STEWART AND ROCHFORT. GERMAN GOODS. MELBOURNE, August 3. The Customs Department has announced that it is not necessary for importers of German goods to apply to the Minister of Customs for permission to land goods in Australia as the proclamation, which forbade importation from former enemy countries was revoked in January last and will take effect from August Ist. The Customs officials fear that unscrupulous traders will be quick to make use of this loophole in the AntiDuniping Act. A UNTIt ALLAN POLITICS.
(Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Aug 4. In the Assembly the Forty-eight Hour Bill was read a second time by 42 to 31. Tt was announced by the Trades Hall that seamen engaged under Australian article s are to receive an increased two shillings from the first. MELBOURNE, Aug 4.
In the House of Representatives, Mr Rodgers gave notice to introduce a Bill to amend the Industries Preservation Act ,to provide more effective measures for dealing with (lumping. In view of the extraordinary depreciation in value of the mark. Mr Rodgers explained that the exchange value of the mark on 31st July was 3015 to the pound. The Act provided for a depreciation of 240 marks to the pound.
MELBOURNE, Aug. 4
The crew of the Eclnica were released on their own recognisances and subsequently Manned the vessel which sailed for Singapore. INCENDIARISM. BRISBANE. Aug 4.
Sixteen fires probably caused by in eeiidiarisni are reported in the coalfields at Cairns.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1922, Page 3
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