GOVERNMENT CONTRACT
PREJUDICED BY THE HOLD-UP,
BRISBANE, 28th October
Mr. Bruce has telegraphed to the Premier stilting that Sir Joseph Cook had cabled that representatives of the AVar Office and the contractors saw him 1 and the Queensland AgentGeneral, and complained that some of the hold-up meat was part of the British Government contract. Sir Joseph Cook added that such action would prejudice the contract now pending, and Argentine might secure it if something were not done to end the hold-up. Mr. Bruce added that the Government regarded the matter as of the utmost importanco to Australia. He asked the Premier to do everything possible to get the meat dispatched.
Mr. M'Cormack, the Premier, in leply, said he would be glad if Mr. Bruce would suggest what the Government could do any more than the Commonwealth authorities to end the trouble created by the strike of British seamen.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 104, 29 October 1925, Page 7
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