ROOTING THEM OUT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 225, 21 September 1915, Page 7

ROOTING THEM OUT.

I FOREIGN VESTED IN-ERESTS. MK-loN (>F AN" AI'STRALI -NGERMAN M'iN'iiPOl.Y IN METAL.-. I The appointment of a !'.,'...: lonian, sion to in.] ore into foreign Holdings in Australasia is a suggestion which is emphatically mad- by Mr. O. t. 11-i.ie, i. ho was a through •j—.ssengVr lo Sy.ln-yj by the R.M.s. Makura after a year's absence in the old World. Mr. Boalc .a a man ol considerable standing in 'no commercial world, having tw i ■>• Ixen president of the Australian Manufacturers' Association. He informed a repre- , scntative of this pa|«_- that b- intends. making tne suggestion quoted above both to tn- authorities in Australia and later to tho,-.- in other part, of Lie Britueii Empire. . In impressing the wisdom of s ic-h action Mr lieale .-xire-e.-d the opinion tliat if Australia look t ..■ lea! Other j British Dominions would follow lie said that, in Britiah South Afri i Ger | mans held i-et.-i interests to the ex tent of 12-1.01. i.(H_) re; resenting an I annua! production of L 12.(>n-..0<») Why, should not that matter is- inquired into i by a commission with a view to swp.ies taken in France whin ■ ,untrv Mr ! Beale has recently visited . with tne. r-.nt that ail l.erman a::! Austrian I •inn, had :,-.■„ pia.niv tabulate.!. He 1 hoped that New- Zealand, a- _.-ll _- Aus j tralia, would ta'.e lp the tug.'n>tion. The matter of ...-rman monopoly in | th- m.-tal market -v-is r.ferrc! to with .om- f-ebng by Mr IVale. wno said that ■-; T c ti- war no ii.-a Jed a deputation j Ito the II n. Mr Tudor, ore of the N.-w I i South Wal-s Labour Ministers, asking! for an export duty on metal Cnfor j time I 'down Mr 'l'-a --a i that it j ..a, a weil known fart that concentrates had be*-* leaving New -oiih Wales in j i,er-r..in sin - to be treated in Germany. in! the., shipped -a.-1, to Vi-'ra'i in, refined form Half ■■' th- concentrates | «_. n left the ..mm ,i:.v-.':.. w-re le- I stin.M t„ he -~r,an as.de to :, | tenal aft-r reining, and the |U-ry »a* who jaid f, r t!,.- -..mag- . f that waste material--Australia or . ..-rms'i.v ' Following up i.i_ for-ef :1 r-'-nr--. Mr Ileal,- ~,, ! that a leu he :,e i :-l tile Iputation to Mr Til -r :.-■ : -•• V ted that t~- i mc won d cm- wh.-n t ■ • m-tal ..ii. a ..a. .e.r.g ail.*c i 'a. till .nto foreign ban it, would come hack to O'-m ■i, bullets thro i_h t.ie h arts of t i-:r I young men \"! that pre lirtion was] in I_e*_inc ju-.toui. Mr ileal- male it his business to v-it sA.uc-'ari ! a ,-.i.iple i of mont.n ago. and he there learned | thatlhe conditions »h, n he in 1 feared j were an act Til. fact. \\ hile h.- war, there , rrrtsin ra..w.iy t,-n It. which were ■ailed showed that the metal produced, ',-.- O.rm.r.y from Aistr.'.an ,-o_.cn ! trates was" available aL C l 4 per ton,| whereat Great Britain was paying ClA'for line in Amen-a. An infortunate | «_,peot of the matter »i. that the '1.-r , man., held contracts for tne output of certain Australian mm-s up to tne war, V.iJO. v.th a spe.-ial population that an and although we had : -en .it war wit-i | Germany f,.r ver a ■--•.r th.i-e tintra -it : .-.ad not'y.t l«n vitiated, Mr. Beale f.-eis so keenly about the matter mat he inten.—, -rasing furtn-r ■ 'representations to the autbontic- nn his j I return to Australia.