COMMONWEALTH NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 May 1915, Page 7

COMMONWEALTH NEWS

AID FOR THE POLES

TRADE WITHIN THE EMPIRE

TOBACCONIST'S SHOP WRECKED

(Received May 27, 2.30 p.m.) fc>jfJLu\Ei, May 27. Madam Melba, who so^cl the seats for lier conceit in aid ot tne Jfoles by'auction, reaused £682. PERTH, May 27. At the Chamber of Commerce trading within the Empire meeting, the President stated that Australia was still importing goods made by German companies under British names. He intended, to propose a motion for submission •to London and Australian Chambers, asking the British Government to call -a conference of business experts, one delegate from each Do.ninion, to work ■out a preferential trade scheme. ADELAIDE, May 27. A girl serving in a tobacconist's shop ■snatched a little Union Jack from a soldier's coat when he entered to.buy •cigarettes. She tore up the. flag and threw it in his face, and refused to serve him. The soldier told his comTades, who reported the affair, to tho' police. A crowd gathered and stoned the shop. The occupants escaped, ihe <*fowd pursuing; but they missed their quarry and returned and wrecked the shop.