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SUGAR PROTECTION. A QUEENSLAND REQUEST. : (Australian Press Association.) CANBERRA, July 28. A deputation accompanied (by the Premier of Queensland (Mr Moore) asked the Prime Minister to renew the protective sugar agreement and embargo against the employment of coloured labour on the cane fields. It was stated three hundred thousand acres were under cultivation. Ninety • per cent of those employed in tho j industry were of British origin, while ' the sugar exported yearly reduced the adverse trade balance by at least two , millions sterling, in addition to being (.responsible for circulating ten millions of new money in the Commonwealth annually. • %■■ -r ; '• -all Mr Seuliin promised ito \ place representations before Cabinet TRIBUTE TO DEAD AIRMAN. $ CANBERRA, July 27. j To-day, being,the .birthday of F. Qj Ewen,; of the Royal, .Australian Air Force, who .was killed on. the day the. Federal Parliament Was inaugurated; at Canberra by tlje Dtike of York, ]a laurel ; wreath was received from his mother, of Auckland,'and was'placed on the grave by Mr Grbeii, Minister of Defence, in Hie presence of a church congregation. Mr Green paid a tribute to a brave flying officer.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1930, Page 5
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