AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3603, 15 October 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE AMATEUR STATUS. Received 11.50 a.m. SYDNEY, This day. The adjourned meeting of the sporting bodies considering the amateur status definition lapsed for want of a quorum. RATES OF EXCHANGE. ! Received 11.55 a.m. MELBOURNE, This day, 'ln the House of Representatives, a Bill has been introduced to remedy the anomaly respecting foreign rates of calculating duties on the bank rate of exchange as ruling in London, except for special cases. PRICE OE TIMBER. MELBOURNE, This day. Colonel Walker, of the War Service Homes Commission, giving evidence at the timber inquiry, said it was impossible to obtain timber supplies at reasonable rates owing to the operations of the timber combines, which met monthly and tregulated .prices. RIFLE SHOOTTNtJ. BRISBANE, This day. Major Garrod topped the score with one hundred out of 105 in the Richarson match, the scores of which count for the first stage of the King's Prize. QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS. BRISBANE, This day. The National candidate was successful at Port Curtis. This reduces the Government's lead to six.