AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1923, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CADLE ASSOCIATION OFFER ACCEPTED. , AI EL BOURNE, June lb. I The Federal Government has accepted (he offer of the Harbour Trust at C 150,000 for the purchase of the AYil- , liamstown dockyard. A portion ol it will be utilised for extending the Alfred grading dock. PAN PACIFIC CONGRESS. SYDNEY, Jane M. The Governor presided over a preliminary meeting of the Pan-Pneifie Congress Committee, formed to supervise accommodation and hospitality to visiting delegates. The Governor said that, he was anxious to see the Pacific Islands civil service develop to he a model to tin' world, such as was tho Government of India in its early stage. JAPANESE BOGEY. SYDNEY, June 15 Dir Walter Marks, member of the Federal Parliament, litis returned from an extended visit to .Japan. He deprecates keeping alive the Japanese bogey. He says that Japan is loyally abiding by the terms of the Washington Treaty. She could take Australia at any time that the spirit moved her. Nothing could stop her, hut this she would not do so for many reasons, the main ones being her desire for friendship with the British Empire; secondly, because she lias no desire lo he a. participant in the greatest naval battle ever seen—that between the British ami .Japanese Meets. j The oft-repented cry in Australia: “Look out! Japan will take us!” was not only senseless, he said, hut ungenerous and an unpardonable insult to a nation that rendered Australia such splendid service during the war, and laid been .supremely loyal 'to her ally. Bn Lain.

Mr Marks so id that he was strongly ■ truck by llu- prospects of wide trade expansion with the East. In this conlection he mentioned that New Zeanull butter had a ready market in .'lnna as against Australian. Goods rum Australia were handicapped by nnl labelling, grading and packing.