AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 17919, 15 March 1922, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

hem Association—By, Takgraph—Copyright. ENEMY COUNTRIES. QUESTION OF TRADE RESUMPTION. MELBOURNE, March 15. (Received March 15, at 10.20 a.m.) The Minister of (Mr Rodgers), in addressing the Chamber of Commerce, explained that tho Commonwealth's tardiness in resuming trade relations with enemy countries was not duo to vindictiveneaa, but to a desire- to protect and encourage local industries. Australia's geographical isolation, which was emphasised during the war, together with the present economic conditions of some countries overseas, had compelled the Government to j-ivo adequate protection to local industries. LABOR NEWSPAPER'S STAFF. HOBART, March 15. (Received March 15, at 10.20 a.m.) A meeting of the Trades Hall Council declared the Labor paper 'World' "black" until Mr E. JJwyer Gray had teen reinstated as editor. Mr Gray had been relocated to the post of lender writer under editorial direction. t BRAMSTON v. TAYLOR. MALICIOUS PROSECUTION ALLEGED. SYDNEY, March 14.. Alderman Brainstem has issued a writ for £2,000 against Sir Allen Taylor for malicious prosecution. This is the sequel: to the charges levelled at Brarnston" in December. DARLING POINT FIRES. SYDNEY, March 14. ; William Thomas, aged twenty, and Evangelina Reynolds, aged thirty-eight, were arrested and charged with maliciously attempting to set fire to a building at Darling Point. Both K'eided on the The woman is the daughter of the occupier. Bail was fixed at £IOO. J