AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association,

FEDERAL BUTTER PRICES

MELBOURNE, Jan. 28,

Recommendations for establishing a.n all-Australian price for butter and cheese with equalisation in each State on a State basis, was approved by a Conference of State representatives, whereat a draft of the proposed State Butter and Cheese .Marketing Act drawn up by the Australian Stabilisation Committee was read. The Bill provides the necessary machinery to fix the price of butter and cheese in each State and effect an equitable method of equalisation on a State, basis between local and export values. N.S.AY. LOAN. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). SYDNEY, Jan. 28. The Assistant State 'Treasurer, Stevens announces the Government intends securing a loan of throe million sterling in London at an early date to l’aciltatc the construction of the harbour bridge and underground railway and other important public works. FEDERAL DELEGATES. * Canberra, j«n. 28. •I. Wallace Sandford was appointed bv the Federal Government to represent employers at the International Labour Conference at Geneva.

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ADELAIDE. Jan. 23.

South Australia’s representatives at the Bis ley Rifle Aloeting will he: AY. Green. H. Mutton, T. Alecrs. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PREADER. ADELAIDE, Jan. 28. Premier Butter, speaking at the Australian Natives’ Association Aleeting said the Australian Governments had more or less engaged in activities which it would have been as well to have left to private enterprise. Politicians had been encouraged to court popularity and support by lavish expenditure of public money. 'This had become' one of the most dangerous elements in political life and if it continued. it would have a demoralising o fleet oil the individual and would cause chaos. 'There was still a new country In be developed and they required 711 imi of a. pioneering spirit for it.