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GOOD RICE CROP. ON IRRIGATION AREA. (Australian Press Association). (Received this day at 9. a.m.) SYDNEY, May 22. The rice crop in Alurrumbidgec irrigation area is expected to yield this season 25,000 tons. The area under crop is 15,000 acres and the average yield is 93 bushels of poddy rice per acre. About five thousand 'tons will have to he exported. The crop is regarded as the best since this industry was launched. • ■ >.< L OBITUARY. SYDNEY, May 22. The death occurred in the hospital of Father Edward F. Pigpt, of Wellington, Director of the Observatory at Riverview College, aged 70 years. Ho was a leading authority on seismology. CONGREGATIONAL UNION. DISCUSSION ON AVAR. " BRISBANE, May 22. At the. Assembly • of the Congregational Union of Australia and New Zealand, a warm debate took .place . upon. iV.TeSqlitftibn" the flyt•lawry. or war. One I war., as infamous; another .sap if tl(c,y ' were. not. prepared td- certain principles they would I><£.-cowaikls. f(t 1 A ihqtion was earriedb|||jsf the sCrnbly recoils ’ its joy ll tl thankfulness \ that sixty-ff|k, outlet sixty-fotir Vi independentpStafijs! accepted -|he; Kellogg'Pact, ( th'at;if 'this hctiop^i8 v the„ t wdrTcl o.f |ff ’war, * it’ 'must be" supported by public rt - f ,,, , ,-i j ' Mr Lewis'(New'Zealand) 4 said no one would vote for war but if an enemy came within their gates, they would resist him. He paid a tribute to the League of Nations, but declared war would not be abolished by the stroke of a pen.
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