Australia

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 235, 13 March 1915, Page 5

Australia

MEAT FOB THE IMPERIAL UOVJiIINJIKNT, f Received 12, M.so«ji,m. v, Sydney, March 12. The State Government lias definitely taken over on behalf of the Imperial authorities the whole of the meat, estimated at from 250,000 to 300,000 carcases, stored in the city refrigerators, a A consignment of 9000 carcases will be ig forwarded in a few days. The Imperial Government provides all the necessary a- freightage. n —_____ id , f n " TRADING WITH THE ENEMY. in Received 11, 11.50 p.m. il • Melbourne, March 12. ,t . Odin Remington, trading as McLean j n and C 0.., was lined £2OO for attempting to trade with the enemy. The evidence of Remington was to the effect that he was an American citizen, doing business in Australia. He had not carefully read the proclamation, but when he discovered that his trading was illegal ho "dropped it like a hot potato." i!C CONCERNING WHEAT SUPPLIES. i- Melbourne, March 12. Mr. Peacock stated that the Government had secured seven cargoes, representing thirteen hundred thousand bushels, of wheat for importation. A conference of the flourmill owners and a Cabinet sub-committee arrived at an agreement by which imported wheat , shall be sold at 7s 8d per bushel, pro- ; vided flour is sold at .£l(i per ton, so ns j to prevent bread exceeding ninepence < for tlie 41b loaf. It will cost the Minis- ' j try 8s 2d to land American wheat and i involve a loss of sixpence a bushel. )- »