MR WATT
I WOOL NEGOTIATIONS SUSPENDED. i -- | AN AUTHORITATIVE STATEMENT. ‘By Telegraph. Press Assn. Copyright.) | (Am f redan end N.Z. Cable Association.) I LONDON, June 11. (Received June 13, 5.5 p.m.) It is authoritatively sue 1 that Mr Watt su-peniled the wool negotiations a fortnight ; ago when the rupture with Mr Hughes bei gait to develop. At that time the uegotia- ; linn.' h-td readied the following stage:— 1 Tim British Government definitely refused ' Mr Hughe.-’ request to suspend the London aides for ,-ix months; the Government were | prepared to pay Mr Watt £10,030,000 imiiudiateiy as a first instalment of the : prof.t.-. j The Government will shortly publish the ! report and balance sheet of the sales to j March JIQR'JPJ. j STATEMENT REFUSED BY THE 1 PREMIER. SYDNEY, June 12. Mr Hughes when made acquainted with Mr Watt’s statement that he had been advised of the resignation declined to make any comment whatever.
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Southland Times, Issue 18848, 14 June 1920, Page 5
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152MR WATT Southland Times, Issue 18848, 14 June 1920, Page 5
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