AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1925, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUOIItALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. .STOPPING OF VI'STHA I JAN SALKS. .SYDNEY, AI ay o. The National Wool Cuuneil is meeting at .Melhourue mi Wednesday to consider tile question of the .suspension of the wool sales throughout Australia, cuing to the general she kness of the demand on both- the local and the London markets. SC HEM K TO Ii AISK BETTER PIirCFS. SYDNEY. May 5. The New South Wales Daily Industry Stabilisation Committee has circularised all the butter and cheese factories in the State, asking thorn to enter into a voluntary agreement to give effect to a scheme, for the raising of the level of local butler and cheese prices by threepence and I’d f-'r pound respectively. The circular says: The r-'lcme provides lor the payment ol an export bounty oil butler and rhec-o. to provide which mean- a levy on the industry; llic amount to he’ levied to vary according to Die ratio of the exportable [surplus to the local sales. The arrangement is to he for, twelve months, and it will cost the consumers of New South Wales an additional three millions sterling. Similar action needs t.o lie taken in all the States, as the scheme can only become operative, if uniformity id action is secured.

KNGI.IS.iI TKAM REACH AUSTRALIA. PERTH. May 5. The Kuglish soccer team lo lour Australia arrived to-day by the Or,sova. The team consists <U eighteen players including six international,s. NKW AUSTRALIAN STATES. (Po.eived this day nt 8 a.i11.) SYDNEY, Al ay 7. U.ihim.'i has made a; ailahle the roper! ef the New States Commission whit h finds that ain new States arc imtira: licaldc and undesirable. As vas. previously cabled tic minority report says a new State in the XnrU i- practicable, but under existing conditions is undesirable. Cabinet has not made a decision on the findings of the Commission. SI'ICIDK TRAGEDY. SYDNEY. May G. An investigation of the Reckoni tragedy revealed that those drowned were Robert Parker, aged 52: lii.s wife, -10. his daughter, 11 ; and his son. aged ft. The Parkers had been farming in the district for a number of years. When an employee lei I the house this morning, everything was apparently in order. When he returned to the house for Imieh. he found a note which stated: “You will find us all in the dam. May God forgive us I We vanmil stand the strain any longer." There was a < licrjue for wages eitclived. The emtdoyee hastened to the dam. and saw three bodies limiting there and the police recovered tint fourth. Mrs Parker had been in ill health lor some time.