AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1925, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

iUgIEALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. WOOL SCHEME. SYDNEY, July 4. Referring to the proposals Tor stabilisation of wool values in a speech at the Sheep Show luncheon, Mr F. B. Ealkiner said lie thought in the future they could do without any such scheme as outlined by Higgins if they bad growers’ council of picked men who were not on any boards of advice or boards of directors of wool companies, and who bad the confidence of fifty to sixty thousand wool giowej's. This Council could meet the Brokers Council and spread sales over the whole year unless otherwise desirable. In such circumstances they did not want such an elaborate scheme as that stigh.v Higgins. A DEL LIE LAND. SYDNEY, July 4. A deputation from the Australian National Research Council waited on Mr Bruce and urged that the French claim to administer Adellie lands should he challenged and that the Australian claim to administer it formally established, and the International sanction should he sought for administration by Australia of the whole part of the Antarctic Continent between meridian ninety west and ](>() east. ATr Bruce in reply said the situation was occupying the close attention of the Ministry which had opened up negotiations with the British Government early in December. The question necessarily "'as very complicated and could not he settled immediately. The claim is still being strangle urgoc! through the proper channels. NOT PI. AGUE. BRISBANE, .July I, li has been definitely decided bv the Stale lienllh authorities that the second suspicious case is not plague, but

a iorni ol blood poisoning. AUSTRALIA’S WAR DEBT. MELBOURNE. July 5. In the Federal House of Representatives the Labour member J)r 'Moloney, gave notice of motion that i Doomsday Book he made, showing i o full the present value of all the immovable projKody in Australia, with th<‘ names of the owners, also that any values from the unearned increment on Mich property, during the next ten years shall he used for the extinction nl the Australian war debt-.