AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[by TKLKOBAI’JI —I* Eft PttKSM ASSOCIATION.]

pl!ODU( K CO-DPKBATIOX. (Received this day at. KLL’o a.m.) SYDNEY. .1 lino lid. At tht? co-o pc rati vo dairy factory managers’ and .secretaries’ conferences. G. Meal's, reading a paper, said an

important development in the dairy industry had lioen the comparative cessation of the export of meat from Australia and New Zealand, and the ipiick swing over to dairying, which in a few years had advanced their joint export fully fifty per cent. During the good season of 1 !)'2l-lili the (piantitics of butler shipped overseas were: New Zealand 03,(KU tons, Australia ."o.tSin. or more than half the total annual imports of butter into Britain. lie paid a tribute to the New Zealand Dairy .Kxport Control Act. which spread the output over a longer marketin'' period. Jn such tin enlorced alteration of marketin'!' methods. Australia must share. They could visualize the sale in ISritnin of colonial loitters, liecoiniiig continuous over the year. (Questioned whether he thought there was a chance of co-ordination with New Zealand in regard to fixing the price of butter, .Mr -Meares replied that in the. interests ot producers prices must come together, 'fhe seed had been sown in New Zealand, and he felt they were firmly convinced there that both countries must work together in the regulation of butter prices.

J’BKFERKNC’K TARIFFS. MELBOURNE. dune :2G. Consequent upon the recent decision at the House of Commons, an early •Ifort is to he made to induce the Federal Parliament to abolish larift duties which give preference to British goods. In the Senate. Senators Dunran and l.yneli have given notices of motion having the object ol a removal of the preferences. SENSATIONAI, CAPTC 1!K. SYDNT'A . dune I’d. Alfred Neill, a prisoner with' many -Biases, who retently escaped from .Mildura and eluded the police till he drove into Broken Hill, allegedly in a stolen car, took a female acquaintance aboard and headed for the back country. A police ear pursued, and in a mad chase through rough country was overtaking the fugitives when the tyre blew out. A second car was procured and the police again got within striking distance. wTieu a wheel came olf. Finally, alter a sensational pursuit over 500 miles. Neill and his companion were captured asleep in the hush. C \NADf AN FOOTBATVTXRS. SYDNEY. June 126. The game against Balmain will lie the last match the Canadian footballers will play in Sydney. They play the fourth test at Newcastle on biiiurdny.