COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 50, 2 March 1915, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

SYDNED WOOL SALES. United Press' Association. (Received 10..0 a.m.) Sydney, March 2. At the wool sales competition was even keener than last wool;, and prices were the highest for the season. ..American operations were lixitstandinglybfewer. CHEiIPstATE APPLES FOfc THE pe6ple v (Received 9.15 a an.) Sydney, March 1. Mr Carmichael is instigating a scheme to eliminate the middleman and supply 1 cheap apples from the Governmenet industrial farms.

FEDERAL BRICK MAKERS.

(Received 10 a.m.)

Melbourne, March 2

The Government has accepted tenders for a brickmaking plant at the Federal capital capable of turning out five million bricks yearly. It is estimated it will take sixty years to make the bricks required for Government buildings.

BIG STATION DEAL.

(Received 10 a.m.) Melbourne, March 2

Tsoneman and Sons have purchased the Elsie Downs and Hodgson Downs station in the Northern Territory, comprising 365,200 acres.

OPPOSITION TO THE TOTAUSATOR. (Received 10.0 a.m.) Sydney, Match- 2. The Methodist Conference passed a resolution against the proposed legislation for the “tote.” One argument embodied in the protest was the fact tKaf in New Zealand during twenty years the investments in this form of gambling had grown from £508,000 to three million per annum, which was sufficiently startling to justify the most powerful opposition to legalising such a pernicious instrument.