SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 532, 27 March 1908, Page 2

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

PREMIER PRICE ASTONISHES BRISTOL. SOCIALISM CHEAPENS THE FOOD SUPPLY. (Reoeived Maroh 27, 7.43 a.m.) London, March 26. The Hon. Thos. Price, the South Australian Premier, and head of a Labour Government Party, responding to tlw toast of 'his health at the Bristol Chamber of Commerce banquet, deolared that he. possessed the confidence of every banker and merchant in South Australia. He wished to remove the fears and misconceptions, entertained in London regarding Australian politics. His advice was: "Do . not judge until you understand." His object in visiting Bristol was to make commercial friends and facilitate the sale of flour, fruit, wheat, wool, and wane. He explained the development of South Australia, and indicated that there was plenty of land available, on easy terms, for British settlers. There was room there for millions. When a duty of one fartliing per pound was allowed ou mutton, the South Australian trade would trend towards Bristol. . . ..iv Howell Davies, Chairman of the Bristol Docks Company, considered tliat Premier Price's description of South "Australia's development was almost like a fairy tale. Its possibilities seemed illimitable. Bristol enjoyed geographical advantages whicli South Australia ehould consider; but he warned them not to undervidue the Argentine trade. If oloser trade relations! (weire established -with South •Australia, - the managers of the Bristol Docks would do their utmost to ' facilitate the 'handling and distributing- bf shipments. - (Received March 27, 8.43 avin.) London, March 26. Premier Price, when dining as tlie guest of the Imperial Industries Club, in London, explained that Australian Socialism, as applied to railways, assisted Imperial! industries and cteapened the food supply for England.