AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1925, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLJC ASSOCIATION. LUTTER REGULATIONS. MELBOURNE, March 7. Officials of the commerce branch of the Board of Trade, also members of Australian Dairy Control Board are at a loss to understand the draft of the proposed butler regulations which have been received from Britain. The new regulations prohibit the neutralisation of cream anti use of boric acid in butter as a preservative. The regulations if put into effect would entirely disorganise the dairying industry. Under them it would be impossible to export butter, so that a trade valued at over six million sterling annually would he lost to the Commonwealth,

WOOL SALE. ADELAIDE, March 7. At the wool sale, bidding was irregular and prices declined fully twenty per cent on the last sale. The highest price realised was thirty pence. CYCLING. MELBOURNE), March 8. The World’s Cycling Derby (half a mile) was won by ’l’. Richards, of South Australia, BIG FLOODS. SYDNEY, March 8. There have been heavy rains in the Lisino're district for the post three days, and they have flooded sie rivers and submerged the wharves. All the low lying country is inundated. A recurrence of devastating floods is feared. YOUTH FATALLY SHOT. MELBOURNE, March 8. William Bennett, a railway clerk, aged 18, was found unconscious with a gunshot wound in the head, oil a road near Lilydale. and later lie died. Foul play is suspected. A SYDNEY DECISION. SYDNEY, March 8. A mass meeting of the \Yhajrf Labourers’ Union decided to honour the agreement ami will work the steamer Ouoon Moor on her arrival.

WRESTLING. MELBOURNE, March 8. In a wrestling match. Liinutkin heal Bannister in two stlrnight lulls.

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