AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1921, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, Nov. 21. The New South Wales branch of the British Medical Association decided to ex'pel from membership Dr. G. S. Thompson, following on events arising out of the case of Mrs. Farr. ( NEW SOUTH WALES WHEAT. Sydney, Nov. 18. The Labor News, the official organ of the Labor Party, says that the Government is powerless to carry out its policy in the face of the Tory majority in the council, adding that the obvious course for the Government now is to bludgeon its policy through the Assembly, send it to the Council for rejection and then go to the country.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. OIL PROSPECTING. Sydney, Nov. 21. Mr. John Palmer, formerly owner of the Mount Stuart station, Otago, has returned to Sydney after seven years in the Northern Territory, where lie has been investigating oil possibilities. He says the land is distinctly poor for agricultural purposes. Darwin resembles an industrial cemetery rather than a live outpost of Australian democracy. Mr. Palmer has secured a prospecting concession over 1000 square miles from the Federal authorities. He is sailing shortly for New Zealand for the purpose of floating a company with a capital of £lOO,OOO to carry out extensive boring tests-