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ACQUITTED. (Australian Press Association) (Received this dnv nt 8 p.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 21. Still another of nine original defendants in the Cheapley’s Ltd. conspiracy case, hare been discharged, namely, Benjamin Newburgh. The case is unfinished. AUSTRALIAN BUTTER, (Received this dnv at 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 22. The butter exports for Australia for the current season totalled 31,654 tons, Victoria heading the list with Queensland next. PREMIER’S CONFLUENCE. Canberra, Feb.' 22. The Premiers Conference decided to cancel, as from June next, the Federal grant in aid of roads, in favour of a new arrangement under which the Commonwealth, will distribute among the States the equivalent of twopence halfpenny a gallon derived from the petrol tax. two million sterling accruing thus to States must be used in construction and maintenance of roads. The suggestion that petrol duties he increased was held over. Federal representatives pointing out there were certain difficulties in the
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1930, Page 5
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