AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(Australian Press Association.) flour price. SYDNEY, April 19. The price of Hour is increased by Ids to 913 IDs.
AIR PRATTEN’S REPORT. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in)*. SYDNEY, April 19.
Mr Pratlen, Minister of Customs, gave the Federal Cabinet an account of his mission to New Zealand. 110 said he found it impossible to complete a new trade treaty, regarding butter, owing to the approaching dissolution ol the Dominion Parliament. Negotiations were left at a stage which their resumption will depend on the action by the incoming Uovernment.
'SHEEP IMPORTATIONS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.ni.A SYDNEY. April 19. The first consignment of twenty ( nrriedules from Macfarlalie’s stud will ho shipped liv the M.arama on Friday to C. Alma Baker of Auckland. The same dav the Mailiigaiiui takes fourteen Cnrriedale ewes for Leonard White, of Rakaia. Four of these were prize winners at the Sydney sheep show. The •I,alamo are hoggets, nine months old. Ktorry, well known in Cnrriedale ( ii'cics in New' Zealand, personally chose these ewes. He is doubtful if there are four better ewes in the Dominion. They are direct descendants of the original Corriedale Hock founded in Canterbury in 1871.
OPOSSUM FAR.MINC. SYDNEY. April 20. Le Sotif, curator of the Zoological Cardens, suggested to the fir farming committee that some of the Australian forests should lie used for opossum farming on lines adopted ill New Zealand where for the past twenty-five years the industry has had a markon
success. SYDNEY, April 19. Obituary.- Edwaid Everett, formerly a business man in Nelson, aged SO. PRIMARY PRODUCERS. •MELBOURNE. April 19. Speaking at the annual convention of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce. Mr Earl Page, said despite the increased markets the position of the fanner continually declined, mainly due to the agricultural industry not being organised on the lines of other industrial concerns. .The Convention passed a resolution requesting the Federal Ministry lo appoint a commission, representing primary producers to consider and report on the economic conditions of markets and primary production
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