AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 17329, 17 April 1920, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Press Association—By Telegraph—C<rpy right. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY, April 17.' (Received April 17, at 11.25 a.m.) Mr Edgar Horne, M.P., is visiting Australia for the purpose of invesiigating the possibilities of settling ox-scrvice men possibilities of settling ex-Service men will go either to Canada or to New Zealand, as Australia will not be ready for any conscripted immigration poliev 'until the Expeditionary _ Force men axe settled. Iho Commodities Commission have fixed the prices of bricks, timber, and potatoes, the latter at 25 per cent, on landed cost into a retailer’s store. Mr Storey (Premier) announced that an immediate inquiry would be hold into the cr.se of 12 Industrial Workers of the World who are prisoners. Several prominent men .connected with Papua, including' the Catholic Bishop in the Territory, write to tho Press traversing Captain _F itch’s statements regarding the causes of dissatisfaction. One writer summarises the position by saying that the trouble was caused through tho Administrator’s policy of developing tho country and safeguarding the interests of the natives, which clash with the commercialTnterests.