AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1925, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

(Awstrilian and N.Z. Cable Awcwiation.) ■ QUEENSLAND .SUGAR. BRISBANE; February .25. The oven production „of sugar.Mn Queensland during ,■ season,'' just .'.ended is estimated a.t one hundred thousand tons. ‘ J ~ ,: ENJOYING A STRIKE; -L ' 'SYDNEY, February?'2s/ . The Perdriau Rubber ers are conducting 7 'thbir sffiKeoui novel manner. They yare hqldihg swimming sports meetihgs ; by’ day ! aiid' dances and cohcerts by night.!i , They state they, will thoroughly the period of idleness. v L,

RABAUL i PLANTATIONS. 25. SYDNEY,’February 25.

Mb Bruce announced that the Government had decided to make a further atempt to dispose of . the plantations at Rabaul, taken from the .Germans during the war. They will be offere' for sale within the next, two months.

INFANTILE DEATH RATE. MELBOURNE, February 26. Giving evidence before the Federal Health- Commission, Dr Springthorpe i said that from 1918 to 1922, Australia lost by death 112,677 children under the age of five. ' The Plunket system in New Zealand had reduced the corresponding death rate to three per thousand. The Commonwealth infantile death rate was 61 per .1000, compared with 41 in New Zealand. Victoria had the highest infantile death rate.

MR. THEODORE RESIGNS. BRISBANE, February .25/1 The Labour Party elected the Hon. W. N. Gillies as Premier oF Queensland in succession to Mr- Theodore, who has resigned. Mr. Gillies previously was Minister of Agriculture. . 17 LATER.

Mr W. McCormick has been selected as deputy leader of the State Parliamentary Labour Party. Mr Brennan, who was Minister for Public Instruction, has been appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court. Two new Min. isters. Messrs Wilson and T. Dunstan, have been chosen.