AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Grey River Argus, 15 February 1946, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

QUEST FOR TRADE IN EAST SYDNEY, February 14. Sir Bertram Stevens has left Sydney by plane on a trade mission to Ceylon and India. He represents an influential group of Australian industrialists who are seeking trade expansion in the east, and will confer with Government authorities and industrial organisations with whom trade negotiations have already been opened. It is intended to develop interests to form an Eastern Development Corporation. plans made by Australian commercial WORKERS KEEP UP ZONING OF' DELIVERIES SYDNEY, February 14. Despite its official ending, zoning is to be continued in some form for a while yet by the traders concerned. The Bread Carters’ Union has followed the lead of milk carters by requesting members not to deliver outside their present zones until the Union policy has been decided. Meanwhile, the President and Secretary of the Milk and Ice Carters Union have issued contradictory statements, the President holding that the Secretary’s action in issuing a request should not be taken as Union action. The President stated that while the committee of management thought the abolition of zoning was a mistake, the Union would continue to serve the public to the best of its ability under any new scheme announced by the Milk Board of the Government.