AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1929, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

N.Z. MAIL BAG STOLEN,

(Australian Press Association)

PERTH, Nov. 5.

A registered mail bag, consigned to Wellington, New Zealand, has been stolen, with three other registered bags. It. was placed on a lorry for the central station, and later in the evening the Wellington bag was missed, since when detectives have been unable to locate it.

AUSTRALIA’S TARIFF WALL. PRIME MINISTER’S STATEMENT. 'Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) SYDNEY, November 6. The Commonwealth Government’s intention to erect a high tariff vail is ievealed in the announcement .by the Prime Minister to the British Association of Manufacturers. Mr Scull in intimated he favoured reciprocal-trade within the Empire, but it must‘not be detrimental to Australian industries. He would much prefer that' British manufacturers should establish a branch business in Australia than ask Australia to import their goods. / Mr Theodore, Federal Treasurer, In a speech at the railwaymen’s picnic, declared the Government intended to give effect to Labour’s policy of high tariffs, which, in his opinion, was the only way to overcome the trade depression and unemployment. The Minister oif Customs, answering a deputation which sought the total prohibition of cheap Russian matches, which are killing the Australian match industry, promised to give effect to the request rather than allow hundreds of women and girls to be driven put of employment.

WOOL SALES; BRISBANE, November 6. At the opening of the wool sales there was keen competition. There was a higher price for greasy merino 20Jd and scoured 30d. The prices generally showed an advance of five to ten per cent on the September sales.