AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1923, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

'UKTKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION ’.MEAT EXPORTERS. SYDNEY, Dec. 0. A deputation from the Meat Council asked Dr Earle Page, Federal Treasurer, to finance its works until it could raise a levy, which it is unable to do until tlie various States have passed the necessary legislation. Unless the Commonwealth help it over the gap the Council would have to go o’li of existence.

’Mr Manning, a member of the Federal House of Representatives said if they could not find overseas markets for their beef, they would have to reduce production. Mr Bell (Queensland) stated that the stock had sold from parts of the Kite at threepence per head, ff Hi" present conditions continued. Queensland would go out of the heel business. lie added that the council only asked for twenty thousand, which would he repaid when the States passed the necessary legislation. Dr Earle Page, in reply. referred the deputation to Sir G. Fuller (N.S.W. Premier). He suggested that the Council should ask the State Ministry to legislate immediately, le(Xalisinp: tho levy. He promised to submit tho question of tiding tiie Council over until able to entoreo a levy, to the Federal Cabinet. TATTLE DISEASE. SYDNEY. December b. Dr. Mumpston stated that it is not definitely established that tlie outbreak i-i West Australia is really rinderpest. As soon as it was decided, the Government would proceed with the manufacture of serum t■ > inoculate cattle against tiie disease. PERTH, December 5. There are several eases of the cattle ducase at Beaconsficld, near Fremantle. The Government has ordered the destruction of all cows in that area. The cattle no'-lion at the Osborne Park Shew next Saturday lias been prohibited.