AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 280, 24 November 1921, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

WHEAT POOL OVER-PAYMENTS. SYDNEY, this day. It has been ascertained that overpayments of the 1015-10 wheat pool approximated £(100,000, and on the current pool £400,000. — (A. and X.Z.)

ASSISTED ISSBSIGEATION.

this day. In Uic Hoxise of P>epresentatives, a motion by Mr. Charlton (Labour) to expunge the item of £162,000 passage iconey for assisted immigrants, was defeated by 30 to 11.— (A. and >".Z. Cable.)

FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.

ADELAIDE, this day. The House of Assembly passed a resolution uninninously that the Convention Bill in the Federal Parliament was unreasonable, and should provide for equal representation for all the States. An amendment for proportional representation was defeated by 21 to 14.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

COLLECTIONS FOE, RUSSIA.

SYDNEY, this day. The Labour party issued an appeal to the Churches to set aside December 4 as a special day for collections on behalf of starving Russian peasants.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.)

HARVESTERS' PAY.

SYDXEY, this day. The Australian Labour party has asked the Farmers and Settlers' Association to confer on the question of a new scale of pay for harvesters, involving considerable increases. The Association replied that as harvesting was in full swing and matters working smoothly between employers and employees, and there was no scarcity of labour, a conference was unnecessary.— (A. and X.Z.)

PAPUAN PLANTATIONS.

MELBOURNE, this day. | In the House of Representatives Mr. ' Hughes announced that the Ministry had decided that it was desirable that the Government should cease to be owners of plantations in the mandated territories of Papua, and they b e offered for sale. Special provisions were made to :;i\> preference to soldier purchasers. | - Mr. Hughes stated that he hoped .to , introduce ' the Anti-Dumping BUI tins week.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.) J