MISCELLANEOUS
FRENCH BREAD SUBSIDY.
{Australian and N.Z. Cable Association., (Received tin’s day at 9.10 a.in.) PARIS, Dec. IS. The Government - ’has decided to withdraw the bread subsidy which is costing .£(SO 000,000. It.would have been even higher, but lor the favourable contracts in Australia and America which have now endu'd. Aineri T can wheat is costing 100/-. The Government had been selling to the French bakers at 40/-. The pr.ct C*f bread will now be about, doubled. The old folieme ]*esa!ted in terrible waste of bread which was sometimes cheaper than potatoes and agriculturists used bread to feed the pigs, chickens and rabbits.
JAPAN AND BRITAIN, VALUE OF THE ALLIANCE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.! "TOXIC,. Dec. 18. Baron Kato, writing in the “Jijishirripo’’- states that the form land substance of the existing Anglo-Jap>-ariese alliance.,are incomparable with the League or Nations, but it is uv advisable that the all’ance, which had cheat influence 'in both countries for twenty years, should’ \be abolished as a mere relic of the past.' It is practical to continue the alliance sf both countries so desire.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1919, Page 5
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