CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 103, 25 January 1933, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES

A conference of Australian meat interests passed a resolution in favour of the creation of a council to control marketing and secure the best results from the export trade. The proposals will be submitted to a plebiscite of the meat interests. Sir Douglas Mawson is busily engaged in England disposing of the remainder of his Antarctic expedition’s equipment and arranging the sale of film rights. He is also hopeful that negotiations which are now being conducted will lead to Australia obtaining a foothoid in the Antarctic to exploit whaling and other rich assets which foreign nations are rapidly developing. • » » Declaring that the British Columbia coal industry was seriously threatened, the Canadian Collieries of British Columbia are protesting to the Government against the importation of British bituminous coal. Colonel 0. W. Villiers, director, alleges dumping despite the fact that Canada has agreed to absorb a million tons of anthracite yearly to displace foreign anthracite.