NEWS IN BRIEF.
Forty million people are starving in China. It is anticipated that the rabbitskin market will drop 20 to 30 per cent. in the near future. Evidence was given before Select Committee on Agriculture that a new pest, Khapa, introduced from India, is spreading in Australia. It is considered worse than weevil beeause it attacks dry grain. For a period of nine months in 1920 British imports from Germany total £17,000,000 against a similar period in 1919 £43,000. In 1913 the total was £41,00,000. It is probable that Mr Mahon, who is a member of the Victorian House of Representatives, will be expelled. It is stated that he advocated a Republic for Australia while attending an Irish demonstration. The Auckland Master Builders5 Association have entered a protest against the indefinite tenns of tlie findings of the Arbitration Court on the bonus question. The Vindictive has been presented to the Belgian Government as a tribute from His Majesty'g Government. The Vindictive will be formally handed over on Armistic® Day.
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Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 35, 12 November 1920, Page 9
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170NEWS IN BRIEF. Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 35, 12 November 1920, Page 9
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