AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3778, 3 May 1919, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

DARING MAIL ROBBERY

(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.)

Sydney, May 2. Mail robberies are again in evidence. A daring case occurred on the South Coast line where two men, by means of a faked telephone message, induced the handing over of mad bags containing cheques and other valuables worth a considearhle amount. FLOUR FROM TAINTED WHEAT. Sydney, May 2. The Sun charges the New South Wales Government with attempting I-) coerce millers to make flour from tainted wheat. This wheat, the paper slates, was part of the 191(1-17 crop which the Rritish Government rejecl■d. It was damaged by the .weather, contaminated by dead mice and other vermin, is unfit for human .consumption and might cause a disease known as Rope Plague. The Sun adds: "Some millers have refused this wheat demanding clean grain, ol winch a plentiful supply was available.