AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

IUtjIRALIAN AND N.».. CAULS ASSOCIATION

A..J.C. REPORT. SYDNEY, August 9. The annual report of the Australian Jockey Club .states the stakes distri- | billed during the financial year for fifteen days including the value of the | Sydney Cup. amounted to £150,129 I sterling, the amount added by the Club being £12(1,525, Last year the total for fourteen days was £112,558. Tbe stakes distributed at Warwick farm meeting were £30,527 making a grand total of £IBO,GoG. The amount passed through the totalisators at Randwiek on twenty-six days was £1.351,825; At Warwick farm, two days, £35,277. a total of £1,380.102, against £1,570,200 on twenty-eight days, all at Kandick, last year, tbe State benefitting by way of revenue to the extent of £125.109. Tbe State also received, in respect to admission tax and half fees paid the Club bv bookmakers, £08.051. making a grand total of £183,160. The Federal Government entertainment tax amounted to £!-!.- 530. The excess of revenue over expenditure for the year ended 30th. June, 1925. was £22,688.

AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY. MELBOURNE, August 9. Mr Unite in a memorandum on the soft woods of Australia, directs attention to the fact that there are only eight hundred million superficial feet of soft woods standing in Queensland to-day. At the present rate of cutting this will hist eight years. Largo quantities of soft woods have been imported from overseas. Referring to afforestation in Australia be points out tin' figures giving plantations are very depressing rending —New South Wales eight square miles, Yictoria tw •ity-oiic, Queensland two. South Aiistra.m folly, West Australia two and a I.rdf I Inly by a well directed and co-ordinated scheme can the timber shortage which confronts us lie averted, says Air Bruce. Tbe Federal Government vi >vs the present forestry situation as one of the must, important problems to b • solved. It proposes by the estnblivimenfc of a Commonwealth school or forestry, to provide means of Irnin’nj the necessary personnel to carry rut this great work.

LK FORTE DESTROYED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY. August 8. The visit of the hurdler l.e Forte to Sydney ended fatally. He fell in negotiating an obstacle in the Moorlicld Hurdles on Saturday and broke his hack, having to be destroyed. I lie jockey. Harris, was not injured.

V SENSATION\L FATALITY. BRISBANE. Aug. 10

A sensational fatality occurred al the Brisbane Turf Club’s meeting. Before the start of the Ladies’ Bracelet for amateur horse riders, the horse Greek Historian bolted and galloped 2V miles before being pulled up. -L Donaldson replaced *.ie exhausted rider and wlion the race started the burse again billed and charged of! the course and passed under a free unseating Donaldson who was killed by tbe fall. The horse then jumped a fence into tbe street where it was captured. AUSTRALIAN LOAN COUNCIL. WHY MR LANG OBJECTS. (Received this day at 11.25 a.mA SYDNEY, August It). As the result of a Conference between Mr Lang (N.S.W. Labour Premier) and Dr Earl Page (Federal Treasurer), tbe former announced the reasons the New South .tales Government withdrew from tbe Loan Council. Mr Lang said that by joining the Council New South Wales might and probably would, be placed in a position of not obtaining the amount required each year for financing pulm works; that any limitation placed by t)i,. le an ( onin d on borrowings would considerably hamper the Treasurer and seriously effect the State Government’ developmental policy, much to the detriment of New South Wales; and that in order to finance file large organisations in New South Wales the Treasurer must be armed with absolute freedom in raising loans.

Mr Lang says the only favourable reason for placing the management o. the loan business under the control of the Loan Council is that it could avoid competition by the States, but this advantage was outweighed bv the aL'ovo reasons. dairy producers board. SYDNEY. AUG. 10. At a meeting of the Daily Produce Control Board the polity of the board was outlined as loliows: —To improve the organisation ol marketing dairy produce in the United Kingdom and Continent: to open Ircsh markets; lo withhold a pen milage of butter and cheese as deemed necssary ; to arrange with the Commonwealth Government tor a guarantee ol advances made upon dairy produce; to take action to maintain the identity of Australian produce in retail shops and among consumers. The Loudon agency will co-ordinate with a similar body appointed by Now Zealand, when the lull marketing strength of the exportable surplus of butter and cheese lrom both countries will be used for the betterment ol selling activities and realisations.

AUSTRALIA’S EMIGRANTS. SYDNEY, AUG. I.U

The Commonwealth statistician reports during the year ended 3!lth June 1i.25, the Commonwealth population benefited by 11.212 persons as a result of migration from oversea. 'I here were (50.8(1!) new arrivals nml 11U557 departures. Seventy-nine per cent ol the oversea arrivals were British whites, and sixteen per cent other white peoples.

SI IEA RING ODER ATI ()NS. SYDNEY, AUG. 10.

The Graziers Association reports good progress is being made with shearing. All big sheds itt the districthave started early and no industrial trouble is being experienced. Owing to the high prices obtained for rabbit skins trapping is keeping many men away from sheds this year, but no shortage of labour is exacted.