AUSTRALIAN CABELS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 60, 11 March 1915, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABELS.

UNWARRANTED PRICE OF *■*■-— — --(-Received-Al.-5-a.m.) ; • IT"" ;".".; ~ ~~ "MELBGEEXE7 this day, -• 3lr;-Fr Tudor -(Eederai. Minister ..of .Customs I. discussing -the unwarranted iigfr price of bread; stated that Australia fcchL sufficient wheat - for seven months' -consumption, and enough seed to- sow Kf.000,000 acree. : ■ . . -PERTH, this day. The Foodstuffs Board has ordered-the to -eea,se- grinding corn -and hand over all their wheta owing to a shortage of seed. : 'll LESS GOLD FROM PAPUA. MELBOUENE, this day. Tlie Lieut.-Governor's annual report on the trade of Papua shows' that the levehue vt-as £54,703, and the- surplus £"5,707: The gold export was £ 47,236, a decrease of £15.000 with the previous rear. A.M.F. ATFAIitS. '_ .". " SYDNEY, this day. A meeting of the AJi£P. Socrety policy"halders appointed a oimmittee to devise a means of tasting inkhe law cdwrte their contention that income arising from "bonuses on policies is not taxable. SPLITTING TIP SUGAR COMPANY • -SYDNEY, this day. j TiTe (Joloiiial Sugar. Company has issued :l circular setting forth resolutions it is proposed to move at "a special j«enerai._meeting on. March 26, 'empowerjn'g.the. directors to separate; the business from that outside the" "Commonwealth and" simplify the fonnatioa of an -allied company concerned, Iwith tins. interests in E.iji ,and -2sew.-Zealand. ._. . .