AUSTRALIAN NEWS
AUSTRALIAN TRADE
(Australian Press Association)
SYDNEY, Jan. 18
From 1924-25 to 1928-29 exports of produce and merchandise from Australia fell from £159,987,12-1. sterling to £140.942,670 sterling. This serious decline is not only with Overseas countries but with the Dominions and has resulted in the Minister oi Maikets (Mr Moloney) asking Cabinet to establish a commercial intelligent service abroad.
, .Officials attribute the present adverse trade balance to the fact that Australia neglected to advertise extensively overseas.
Between. 192(5 and 1928. the export trade to New Zealand fell from £;>,- 059,779 sterling, to £3,868,281 sterling, while Canada’s exports to New Zealand correspondingly increased.
A NARROW ESCAPE
MELBOURNE, January 17
William Thomson aged 29, A dogman, had a remarkable escape from death. When a girder slipped front a steel sling one hundred feet up he clung desperately to it. The girder caught in the frame* work of a building after falling thirty feet, and. a second later fell on Thomson pinning him. His mates levered a second girder from his body and it crashed 70 feet below. Thomson was taken to the hospital with injuries to the hip and severe shock.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1930, Page 6
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