AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
PLAGUE RATS IN SYDNEY. FOUR MORE FOUND. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 6.30 wn.) SYDNEY, Fob. 25Four more plague-infected rats have been discovered in widely separated districts. Two were found at Glebe, and two at Paddington. RECORD ELECTION NOMINATIONS. SYDNEY. E«b. 25. Nominations {or the general election closed with a record number o£ candidates. DEARER BREAD IN MELBOURNE. , MELBOURNE, Feb. 25. The price of bread has been increased a halfpenny. PAPER PULP EXPERIMENTS. 'MELBOURNE. Feb. 25. j The Minister for Customs states that '. five of 24 woods tested at the Forest Products Laboratory in Perth hav9 been selected as the most likely sources of a supply of paper pulp. The experiments were! decidedly encouraging, but required confirmation on a semi-commercial scale. PROTECTION FOR IRON INDUSTRY. SYDNEY. Feb.-35. Mr. W. M. Hughes promised a deputy tion from Lysaght's galvanised iron factory that he would recommend extra protective duty on iron to encourage the industry in Australia, if the manufacturers did not esplcit' the public by charging exorbitant prices.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 7
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