AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 July 1934, Page 7

AUSTRALIA

BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]

AID TO CITRUS GROWERS. CANBERRA, July 14

Mr Lyons announced that mandarin growers would be assisted by a grant of £lO,OOO from the Commonwealth Government, and New South Wales would make the same amount available. The assistance to growers was in consideration of their serious position, largely due to the loss of the New Zealand market. BOMB AT HOSPITAL MELBOURNE, July 14. Proof that the explosion at Bendigo hospital was deliberately caused, was provided when the police found a piece of burnt fuse and packing

from what is believed to be a homemade bomb.

The police believe the bombing was he work of a maniac.

OIL FIELD. CANBERRA, July 14.

Mr Lyons announced that the Governments of the Commonwealth and New South Wales had decided that negotiations be opened with persons considered to possess the necessary technical and engineering qualifications, to bring about the development of the Newnes Shale oilfield, 'ihe name of Imperial Chemicals Industries Ltd., has been mentioned, said Mr Lyons, as a. very desirable company to undertake the work.

N. TERRITORY MINERALS. CANBERRA, July 13.

Doctor W. G. Woolnough, the Commonwealth Geological Adviser, who recently toured,the Northern Territory by aeroplane, reports there are excellent prospects ahead of the mining industry there, which, if properly handled, are capable of leading to lasting prosperity; but he says that there is little room for the old-fashioned prospector, who already has picked the eyes out of the richer deposits, and who suspended operations immediate-

ly the more easily treated ores were depleted.

Dr. Woolnough warns the speculators against any premature statements about the values and about fictitious claims in the Northern Territory. He also deplores instances oL mismanagement and miscalculation,’’ which are likely to produce a reaction, the effects of which are likely to retard major development for a generation.

N.Z. COMMISSIONER. SYDNEY, July 13. Mr. R. H. Nesbitt, who recently was appointed Australian Trade Representative for New Zealand, was entertained at. lunch to-day by Mr. L. Schmitt, the New Zealand Government Trade Commissioner in Australia, to wish him bon voyage and enable him to meet a number of representative New Zealanders. Among those present were Messrs. L. Hartigan, the Chief Commissioner of New South Wales Railways, W. Lambie, Director of the New South Wales Tourist Bureau; Maddocks, New South Wales Transport Commissioner; Souter, Officer-in-Charge of the New South Wales Commerce Department; Tremlett, Acting-Secretary of the Premier’s Department; Codlin, Assistant-General Manager of the Sydney “Herald”; A. D. Perk, Secretary to the Treasury of New Zealand; G. W. Clinkard, General Manager aijd Secretary of the Tourist and Commerce Department of New Zealand.