AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1936, Page 8

AUSTRALIA

[BY CABLE —PEESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]

LESSON FROM NEW ZEALAND. SYDNEY, August 10.

Sir Herbert Gepp, who returned from New Zealand, said that people in the more fertile areas of Australia might profitably study the successful land settlement, scheme in operation in the Waikato district.

BOOKMAKER’S SUICIDE. SYDNEY, August 10

A man threYV himself over the cliff at Echo Point, Katoomba, falling 1000 feet into the valley below. A search part}’ later found, the body impaled on a tree stump. It was identified as that of George Wilkinson, aged 35, a Sydney bookmaker. A young woman, whom Wilkinson asked to hold his overcoat, witnessed the tragedy.

CHILLED BEEF. SYDNEY, August 9

A New Zealander, Mr Cecil Teschemaker, who is on one of his periodic journeys between the Dominion and the Argentine, is spending a month in Sydney, visiting his sister. Lady Murray Anderson, wife of the Governordesignate.

In discussing the chilled beef industry. Mr Teschemaker said he thought that for some years Australia would have difficulty in producing in sufficient numbers the type of cattle required for the chilled beef trade. The long-term meat agreement between Britain and Australia would lower 'the price of the cattle of the Argentine and might result, in areas of cattle-raising land being devoted to grain and dairying production.