AUSTRALIAN NEWS
FLOOD DAMAGE. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, Oct. 15. The floods at the Windsor and Richmond districts have driven scores of people from their homes, which are submerged to a depth of three to fifteen feet. Furniture is floating everywhere. The vegetable crops have disappeared. A COMING’VISITOR. (Received this dav at 8.30. a.m.) FREMANTLE, October 16. Lord Craigavon (Prime Minister of Northern Ireland) is a passenger by the Otranto. Interviewed, he declared the situation in Northern Ireland was now stable, with an absence df feeling between the parties there and between north and south. Beyond that he would not discuss politics. He and his wife are visiting Australia and New Zealand on a He added that commercially Ulster is progressing, especially in shipbuilding, which is one of the main industries. Other lines of industry are not so prosperous.
Lord Craigavon is extremely keen on trade within the Empire, and said Northern Ireland purchased largely of Australian and New Zealand goods. He would like these dominions to reciprocate in the same measure. it is understood Lord Craigavon leaves New Zealand for home in February.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1929, Page 6
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