AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 18138, 30 November 1922, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Pres* Association—Bf Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. PA:PUA’S POSITION. SYDNEY, November 30. (Received November 30, at 9.50 a.m.) Tire Sydney ‘ Morning Herald ’ states that as the result of dissatisfaction with the treatment which it has received) from the Commonwealth Government, a movement is afoot amongst those having commercial interests in Papua for separation from Australia and joining Papua up with a Pacific Federation of Islands. WASHINGTON NAVAL TREATY. MR HUGHES CONCERNED. MELBOURNE, November SO. (Received November 30, at 9.50 a.m.) Mr Hughes, in a speech at Bendigo, said that there was a doubt whether IPranoa and Italy would ratify the Washington Disanmament Treaty. If it were not ratified, it might mean a blow that would prove fatal to the existence of Australia. Ratification meant more to Australia than to any other country. GERMAN CLUB REOPENED. BRISBANE, November 30. (Received November 30, at 9.50 a.m.) The City Council approved of the reliceaiising of the German Club, which has been closed since the 'beginning of the 'war. DR SPAHLINGER’S CURE. BRISBANE, November 30. (Received November 30, at 11.30 a.m.) Mr Massy Green© (Minister of Health) has % cnronnoedi that Dr Spahlinger has offered to sell to the Commonwealth (.ho Australian and Eastern rights of his consumption cure for £15,000. The Government has requested Dr Spahlinger to sell to it sufficient doses of the remedy to allow experiments to be made on guinea nigs, but he replied that he would be unable to supply sufficient vaccine for teats for three year's. GREATER. SYDNEY. TOWN-PLANNING SCHEM E. SYDNEY, November 30. (Received November 30, at 11.35 a.m.) A. representative gathering of citizens, including architects, builders, andi surveyors, formed a Sydney Regional Plan Convention for lbs purpose of securing for Sydney and its environs a compreheneivn plan of development in accordance with a scheme adopted, a . generation ago by Paris and Chicago. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. SYDNEY, November 30. (Received November 50, at 11.25 a.m.) A huge fire is enveloping the western front of the Pilliga Slate forest, near Coonamble. Altogether 30,000 acres of timber and grass lands have been burnt.