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Grey River Argus, 20 April 1923, Page 5

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At Sydney a meeting of the (’ouucil of the Retailers’ Association drci.led .that all shops within the jurisdiction of the association should close on Auz-;>-The Lord Mayor of London has opened a “Save the Victory” Fund, asking for £!.'(•, 00<> to restore Nelson’s flagship. Mr Lloyd George’s l<>th article discusses the coining struggle in British politics, which he bases on the recent • motion of the Labour M.P., Mr Philip ■ Snowden, in favour of substituting • public for private enterprise in the sphere of essential national industries. At London. John Kersie (charged , with attempting to procure the murder of his wife to obtain insurance money > I was committed for trial. j The French Post Office is experimentally introducing the Berlin system of photographic transmission of telegrams. The exact photograph of a message -will be delivered for ten francs per page. The Federal Minister. Mr Chapman, announced that Australian subsidies on export meat will be retrospective irom January 1. At. Melbourne the wholesale price of milk will be increased on July 1 to 1/10 per gallon. At London the Empire War Memorial League proposes a memorial tn eluding the clearance of several hundred acres of the worst slum areas in West minster, and the transformation into a place of noble roads and palatial buildings, including an Empire Avenue 120 feet wide, extending from Victoria Railway Station to Lambeth Bridge. The. proposed buildings include an Imperial Art Gallery. Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, a building for the University of London, and a memorial shrine with sixty-nine chap- ’ els, which alone will cost a million and • a half sterling. | The search for the missing Queeits- ! land State steamer Douglas Mawson,

| has so far been unavailing, but hope is not abandoned that the crew may I have landed in an uninhabited part oi j the Gulf coast. j The suggestion of the Secretary oi | the N.S.W. Cricket Association that • the South African team before com- • mencing the tour in England early .next year, should visit Australia, is rei ceiving much support in cricket circles • and the Press. I The bodies of a woman, Annie Ua- • hill, ami a man, Leo Butterfield, were i found clasped in each other’s arms in ' the River Murray at Mannum, Nothing is known to explain the tragedy. i The Australasian Tennis Council decided in consequence of Patterson. Anderson and Wood being unavailable, that it will not send an Australian team for the Davis Cup contest. It is understood the Council held that unI less the team was able to reach the challenge tie, the financial bunion | would be to < heavy to justify sending •a team away, and the material ava'l- | able was not closs enough to qualify | for the finals. | Professor Pearson, of I’ennsylvanit’ | University, who is. on a mission to inI quire into social and industrial conditions in the Far East. Australia, and New Zealand, has arrived at Sydney, after spending several months in the East. He declares that Japan is not troubling herself about exclusion from Australia. Y’iseount Kato, Prime Minister, told him that there were so few Japanese in Australia and New Zealand that no question is nt issue thereon between the British Empire and Japan. Professor Pearson will shortly visit New Zc\ land.