COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 38, 16 February 1915, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

EXPORT OF MEAT.

United Press Association. (Received 9.45 a.m.) Sydney, February 16

The managing director of Pitt and Son, Badgery, referring to the Queensland meat trade in regard to the British Government’s appropriation of the exportable surplus, points out that on.a basis of export of 400,000 bullocks it would mean.something like £5,000,000 paid to the growers. This is fully twenty-five per cent better than the 1914 price, which was a record. ADVERTISING AUSTRALIA. (Received 9.45 a.m.) ,V- Sydney, February 16. A proposal made by the Million Club to inaugurate a travelling exhibition of Australian manufactures and industries to tour centres in the Commonwealth and finally to go to England for the purpose of stimulating trade within the Empire is receiving the consideration of chambers of commerce and manufacture. , (4 THE WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY. (Received 9.45 a.m.) Melbourne, February 16. •Mr Fisher, commenting on the Governor of South Australia’s reported speech at Uralla on Saturday, said that if the words were uttered, they constituted a grave official indiscretion and cannot be allowed to pass without comment. Governor Galway, who was iapeaking on the “White Australia” policy, is reported to have severely criticised it, saying that,he was unable to conceive how the. Northern Territory could ever ba developed with White Labour alone, and suggesting that owning to the services of the Indian troops and the gallantry of the Japanese Allies, the feelings would undergo considerable qhange. , r • 1- 4 :-a ■— PATENT LAW. (Received 9.45 a.m.) Melbourne, February 16. Mr Hughes announced that, respecting the application submitted regarding the voidance of two enemy patents, ferro-prism and’thermit, and the two trade marks “Lysol” and “Dovinia,” it had been decided to grant a license to manufacture ferro-prism for seven years, subject to certain conditions. No decision had .been reached regarding thermit. The application regarding Dovinia had been refused and the lysol application granted subject to peytain conditions. vfj' , ■ .'( BUILDING UP OUR TRADE. •.* • 4:»(Received 9.45 a.rn.) . Melbourne, February 16. Mr Livingstone, Minister for Education, in order to prevent the_ importation; of German and Austrian goods after the war, determined to give all Education Department’s trade ,to ./British^and Australian ers.'../■A- " " -- -