AUSTRALIAN NEWS
THE VICTORIAN FLOODS. By Cable.—Press AssoeUtton.-Oopyrig»t * * Melbourne, August 11. 4As a result of the flood in the Kerang district many houses are uninaabitaMe, whilst numbers have collapsed Ona » family is living in a strawaUck. Hw .1, thousand acres of crops have been ruin- -» oil. Similar reports come from tht Lehuca district.
A NEW RAILWAY. Sydney, August 51. The lender of £378,000 lias been «• cepted for the second section of th» North Coast Railway, which will open up 11 further large ar ca of vahuiUa dairying lauds.
NEW SOUTH WALES INDUSUBSB, Sydney, August 11. At the annual meeting of the (Sam'icr of Manufacturers, the president quoted statistics to show that the number of males omploycd in New South | Wales factories last year'was 67J617, J and females' 21,481, whilst the value ol - T the machinery and plant mi £8#M,000 ( compared with 1(5,1133 males, 2tySl4 females, and 11,044,000, the value of the plant in the previous year. He predicted the success of the Industrial Disputes Act once it was properly la force, and j expressed gratification at the growing M demand for Australian-made in place of ' m imported goods. , M PROHIBITION OF NEW ZEALAND ■ POTATOES. ■ Melbourne, August 31. V The Minister for Curtoma has decided ~ not to advise the removal of the prohibition against New Zealand potatoes , even in eases where they are accomftiinied by certificates of freedom from the disease.
A SPORTSMAN'S ESTATE. . , Melbourne, August 31. *1 The Victorian estate, of the late Mr. Joe Thompson, a well-known racing j figure, is valued at ,€42,«08, and the 1 English estate at £23,4J0. Everything 8 was bequeathed to the widow and chil- '| dren. M
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 178, 1 September 1909, Page 2
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