AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 31 December 1924, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) U Ktralian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, This Day.

The price of bread from Monday next will be increased to sgd over the counter in the Metropolitan area and to s|d in tho suburbs. The Attorney-General, Mr Bavin, states: “The increase is part of tho price we have to pay for the general proserity in our primary indus-tries.--Owing -to the -high price of wheat due to world causes over which we> have n.o control, the price of flour naturally increased, and with it the price of bread. Primary producers have- had a pretty bad time in recent years, and they are fully entitled to the benefits they arp now receiving from the present state of the world’s market for their produce. We cannot expect them to sell to the local consuriier at less than the world's parity. That being so, we shall have to put up with the increase in the price of bread.” The Commonwealth Football Association lias received cabled advice that a British Soccer team will tour Australia about, tho middle of next year. Should the Neiv Zealand Association decide to participate in the tour, the team will have ten Saturdays in Australia and six in New Zealand. The visitors are returning via Vancouver. Up to 9 o’clock on the 30th of December, 2098 alarms of fire were recorded in the Sydney fire district, a decrease compared with the correspond-, ing time of the previous year of 513. Fire calls in the country numbered 702. During the past year 530 new limited liability companies with a nominal capital of £14,316,000, and 78 foreign companies witli a nominal capital of £13,906,211 were registered in this State. HOBART ,This Day.

At tho Commonwealth rifle meeting at Launceston W. G. Butler, New South Wales, won the King’s Prize with a score of 238.

PERTH, This Day.

Lord Jellicoe left Freemaptlo by the Mongolia yesterday. He was suffering from a troublesome knee, and was unable to attend the races as originally intended.