AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11643, 9 August 1916, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE FROZEN MEAT CONFERENCE. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received August 8, 12.35 p. m. Sydney, August 8, At the Frozen Meat Conference the chairman said that in view of the war commitments Australia would require to realise every penny possible from the sale of its products abroad. The fact that the money would be circulated within the Empire should he placed against any idea that it was unpatriotic to ask that the same price should be paid for Australia as for Argentine meat. On the other hand it was unfair that the entire disadvantages should he -borne bj T Australia and Now Zealand by our system by which the British Government, intended to keep down the prices of meat to the Home consumer, whilst the British shsep farmer and the Argentine exporter were permitted to reap all the advantages of high prices. These aspects of the matter had not yet had proper representation to the Imperial authorities. MENINGITIS. Received August 8, 12.35 p.m. ■ ' Syduey, August 8. There has beer a recurrence of meningitis.' Two cases are reported from Broken Hill and a death in the Bathurst military camp.