AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11647, 15 August 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

United Press Association—By Bleatrio Telegraph—Copyright Received Aug. 14, 10.30 a.m. Melbourne, Aug. 14, As result of Government restricting the powers of the Federal Prices Adjustment the Board has resigned. Obituary. Sir George Turner, formerly Commonwealth Treasurer aud Premier of Victoria. A regulation is being issued prohibiting any agreement for the sale of a mining and metallurgical company being entered into by a person not a naturalised Britisher residing in the Empire without the Minister’s consent. Brisbane, August 14. The Superintendent of Experimental Stations estimates Queensland’s sugar output this season at 186,000 tons, valued, at-£8,348,000. t Sydney, August 14. The Government )s inviting applications from chemists or chemical engineers to fill fifty positions in explosive factories.

SUGAR PRODUCTION. Melbourne, August 16. The total production of sugar will be about 200,000 tons less than estimated. On the estimated consumption, it will be necessary for *he Commonwealth to import between March and June 70,000 tons. THE CHARTERING OF SHIPS. MR HUGHES’ SUCCESS. Melbourne, August 15. At a meeting of the Wheat Board Mr Hughes stated that he had succeeded in chartering a hundred vessels to carry wheat at freights be--1 ow the ruling rates.