NORTHERN TERRITORY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 72, 29 June 1916, Page 6

NORTHERN TERRITORY.

ADMINISTRATION questioned

(United Prebp Apsooution. 1 Melbourne, June 28.

Mr Boys, late manager of the Daly River demonstration farm in the them Territory, has returned to ffiptoria. He states he resigned the ; managership on accotmt of the,' atth itudSlof the Administrator • (Dr; ,pilrftth), -and of, in his the utter ;?h<>peles3ftess ttf fever being in the least degree a success.' He de- ; dares that most of the settlers were induced there by the roseate prps r

&Jiad‘ already abailddlied 'their leavingr.their yiiskV ruuptdnieftts, aM’ hbusfefe-' to avoid complete ruin. Recently, Dr. GilrutK re:.£ose<i.: things were going well at Batchelor farm, whereas the manager reported that things were very bad. He considered the Daly River was never a successful dairying settlement, and therefore it Was very unfair to induce settlers there.

TAMMANY CHARGE WITHDRAWN

(Received 9.15 a.m.) Melbourne, June 29,

Dr. Gilruth has advised the Minister for External Affairs that Dr. Jensen has .withdrawn the Tammany charge, explaining that he did not understand the word Tammany meant corruption.